Kommentare

Aus: Die Gedichte 1922 bis 1926 (Paris, Sommer 1925)

Von Parker J. Palmer:

Here’s a Rainer Maria Rilke poem that I find full of meaning — despite the fact that it’s one of the shortest poems I know.

With highly distilled wisdom, it reminds us that…

• We yearn “not to be cut off” from the source.
• Our inner lives are as vast and worthy of exploration as outer space.
• What we all seek is a sense that we’ve come home.
• Home is to be found “in here,” not somewhere “out there.”
• Our inner home is a place of beauty, “hurled through with birds and deep / with the winds of homecoming.”

And Rilke does it all in 39 words, about one-third of the number I used to write this post. Amazing!

https://onbeing.org/blog/parker-palmer-tracing-the-constellation-of-your-inner-life/