Podcasts about Rainer Maria Rilke

In honor of the recent passing of the eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and dear friend Joanna Macy, we return to our interview with her from 2018. In this conversation, she traces the ways a life-long heart connection with the living world cultivated a resounding ecological awareness within her work and spirituality; and explores how we might return to an “ecological self” as a way to be of service amid the climate catastrophe. Joanna was also a seminal translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry, finding his contemplations on the entwinement of grief, beauty, and spiritual life deeply resonant. You can hear Joanna recite, alongside Anita Burrows, a selection of their translations in our audio story Be Earth Now.  Read the interview transcript. Photo by Adam Loften. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rilke hatte legendäre Affären und Freundschaftsbeziehungen, zu Lou Andreas-Salomé oder der Prinzessin Marie von Thurn und Taxis. Und er suchte unentwegt Ruhe. So auch in dem Schwarzwald-Städtchen Bad Rippoldsau.

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke imagines a silence so deep, so complete, that all the noise—the chatter of neighbors, thehum of our senses, all the distractions we pile on ourselves—falls away. And in that stillness, he says, we might finally glimpse the divine with real clarity.What strikes me is how often we treat noise as normal, almost comforting. We scroll, we chatter, we keep the background going—TV, music, podcasts, even when we're not listening—just to fill the space. But maybe what we're really doing is avoiding the silence itself. Because silence can be uncomfortable. It asks us to listeninward, to hear the voice we've been ignoring—the voice of authenticity, of truth, of God.#LiveOnPurpose #IntentionalLiving #Rilke #StillBecoming #SacredRest #LivingToBE #NervousSystemHealing #SlowLivingMovement #FaithOverFear #FromDoingToBeing #HealingInStillness #SpiritLedLiving #RealConnectionMattersInformation:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.reinogevers.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Books:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sages, Saints and Sinners⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Deep Walking for Body Mind and Soul⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Walking on Edge: A pilgrimage to Santiago⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The Search for Fulfillment is a new short series released each Friday where we uncover lessons of the greatest minds to help you live with purpose, passion, and peace. In today's episode, Brian asks, "What unanswered questions in your life can you embrace with patience, and how might that perspective bring you greater fulfillment along your journey?" Enjoy Episode 31 of The Search for Fulfillment. #BeNEXT

À travers les récits du facteur du village et de sa dernière secrétaire personnelle, on rencontre le poète allemand Rainer Maria Rilke, personnalité discrète mais marquante. Il sʹétait installé en Suisse, dans un Valais dont il aimait la nature. Une proposition de notre archiviste, Véronique Raboud.

Elizabeth Weingarten, a journalist and applied behavioral scientist, shares her journey through the labyrinth of life's uncertainties in our latest episode. As she faced personal challenges in her marriage and career, she found solace and guidance not in conventional advice, but in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet." Elizabeth's new book, "How to Fall in Love with Questions," is a testament to the power of thoughtful inquiry in an uncertain world. She unveils how embracing questions, rather than fearing them, can lead to personal growth and deeper connections.This episode also tackles the importance of resisting the constant pull of technology for quick answers and instead invites listeners to build resilience by living with uncertainty in everyday situations. By nurturing this practice, we discover how to manage life's bigger, more ambiguous questions with courage and self-awareness.Listeners will find inspiration in creating a "questions practice," an approach that fosters curiosity, conversation, community, and commitment. Learn to transform limiting questions into ones that open possibilities and guide you towards your true desires. With practical examples and strategies, Elizabeth illustrates how open-ended questions can enhance relationships and foster a collaborative spirit, especially within teams. This episode is a call to view uncertainty as an opportunity for growth, to embrace diverse perspectives, and to transform questioning into a powerful tool for personal and professional development.What You'll Learn- The transformative power of embracing questions during uncertain times- How thoughtful inquiry can ignite personal growth- Strategies for building resilience through the art of questioning- Ways to forge deeper connections in personal relationships using questions- Techniques to enhance professional interactions by embracing curiosity- The empowering and inspiring effects of incorporating questions into daily lifePodcast Timestamps(00:00) - Falling in Love With Questions – A Personal Journey(12:33) – Questions As Acts of Courage(20:22) – What Is A Questions Practice?(34:09) – The Power of Open-Ended Questions(43:25) – Creating A Team Culture That Embraces Questions(51:24) – Questions to Keep and Questions to Let GoKEYWORDSPositive Leadership, Navigating Uncertainty, The Power of Questions, Personal Growth, Leading with Courage, Vulnerability as Strength, Managing Technology, Enhancing Resilience, Deepening Relationships, Open-ended Questions, Positive Team Dynamics, The Benefits of Rituals, The Secrets to Collaboration, Raising Self-awareness, CEO Success

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand. I was joined this episode by Chris and Elise Jones and Ali Talbot. We gathered in the warm, book-lined library at Chris and Elise Jones' home and just talked. We read Rainer Maria Rilke's poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing, and from there we let the conversation unfold naturally. We talked about suffering — not in a heavy, hopeless way, but in the way you talk when you know that pain and beauty are woven into the same thread. We explored what it means to surrender to life's difficulties instead of resisting them. We laughed about childhood memories, tofu meatloaf, and the glory of Saturday morning cartoons. We got real about trauma, caretaking, creating from heartbreak, and what it means to show up for each other when life breaks us open. This episode is about sitting with what's hard, about finding connection through vulnerability, and about how creativity — whether it's poetry, baking, music, or just making something out of pain — can save us in quiet, powerful ways. It's also about joy. Tangents. Belly laughs. Tears. Root beer ice cream sandwiches. Give it a listen. It's not polished, but it's real. And sometimes that's exactly what we need most. I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were discussed. You can email me at poetdelayed@gmail.com. My books of poetry, My Mother Sleeps, The Ghost of a Beating Heart and Haiku Village are availabe for purchase at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Scott-R.-Edgar/e/B0B2ZR7W41%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share) Holding my book at The King's English Bookshop https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/b/b1c4f464-ff8b-4fd1-8632-8c458a232c1a/olfoSxre.jpeg Special Guests: Ali Talbot, Christian Jones, and Elise Jones.

This rich, gorgeous conversation will fill your soul. The singular and beloved Joanna Macy died at home at the age of 96 on July 20, 2025. She has left an immense legacy of beauty and wisdom and courage to sustain us. A Buddhist teacher, ecological philosopher, and Rilke translator, she taught and embodied a wild love for the world. What follows is the second and final conversation Krista had with Joanna, together with Joanna's friend, psychologist and fellow Rilke translator Anita Barrows, in 2021. Joanna and Anita had just published a new translation of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the turn of the last tumultuous century, Rilke was prescient in realizing that the world as he'd known it was passing away. Joanna's adventurous life and vision took shape in the crucibles of the history that then unfolded. Relistening to her now is to experience a way of standing before the great, unfolding dramas of our time — ecological, political, intimate. We stand before the possibilities of what Joanna called “A Great Unraveling” or “A Great Turning” towards life-generating human society. All of this and so much more comes through in the riches of this life-giving conversation. Sign yourself and others up for The Pause to be on our mailing list for all things On Being and to receive Krista's monthly Saturday morning newsletter, including a heads-up on new episodes, special offerings, recommendations, and event invitations.Joanna Macy was the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects. Her books include Active Hope and four volumes of translated works of Rainer Maria Rilke, together with Anita Barrows: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God;  In Praise of Mortality; and A Year with Rilke. Krista's previous "On Being” episode with her is “A Wild Love for the World.” That's also the title of a lovely book of homage to Joanna that was published in 2020. Anita Barrows's most recent poetry collection is Testimony. She is the Institute Professor of Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, and also maintains a private practice. 

Dear friends, In memory of Joanna Macy, who passed away on July 19th, we are republishing episode #12 of The Way Out Is In podcast series, with an introduction by Jo Confino. A scholar of Buddhism, systems theory, and deep ecology, Joanna Macy (1929 -2025), PhD, was one of the most respected voices in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology. She interweaved her scholarship with learnings from six decades of activism, had written twelve books, and laught an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects. In episode 12 (November, 2021), presenters Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and lay Buddhist practitioner and journalist Jo Confino were joined by Joanna Macy to discuss the relevance of Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings to the crises we face today as a species; the energy of simplicity; truth-telling and the power of facing the truth; the grounds for transformation; impermanence; interbeing. Joanna recollects what Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings and activism have meant to her, and shares a special meeting with him in the early 1980s, during a UN peace conference, when Thay read one of his essential poems in public for the first time. Joanna's activism, forged during many campaigns, and her practice and study of Theravada Buddhism, shine through in her priceless advice about facing the current social and ecological crisis, grieving for all creation, and finding the power to deal with the heartbreaking present-day reality. She also addresses how grief and joy can coexist in one person, and how to be present for life even in the midst of struggle.Their conversations will take you from the current “great unravelling” and the “gift of death” to Rilke's poetry; the magic of love as solution; active hope; the contemporary relevance of the ancient Prophecy of the Shambhala Warriors; the possibility of a “great turning”. And can you guess her aspirations at 92? Could a swing be just the perfect place to discuss the evanescence of life?Brother Phap Huu shares a lesson in patience from Thay, and adds to the teachings of touching suffering, recognizing and embracing the truth, consumption of consciousness, finding balance, and smiling at life.  Jo reads a special translation of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, expands upon some of Joanna's core books and philosophies, and recollects “irreplaceable” advice about overwork. The episode ends with a guided meditation by Joanna Macy. Co-produced by the Plum Village App:https://plumvillage.app/ And Global Optimism:https://globaloptimism.com/ With support from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation:https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/ List of resources Lotus in a Sea of Fire (1967)https://plumvillage.org/books/1967-hoa-sen-trong-bien-lua-lotus-in-a-sea-of-fire/ Call Me By My True Nameshttps://plumvillage.org/books/call-me-by-my-true-names/ Celestial Bodhisattvashttps://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/buddhas-and-bodhisattvas-celestial-buddhas-and-bodhisattvas Rainer Maria Rilkehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Duino Elegieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duino_Elegies The Tenth Elegyhttps://www.tellthestory.co.uk/translatedpoemduino10.html The Book of Hourshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Hours Satipaṭṭhānahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satipatthana World as Lover, World as Selfhttps://www.parallax.org/product/world-as-lover-world-as-self-a-guide-to-living-fully-in-turbulent-times/ ‘The Shambhala Warrior'https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=236 The Shambhala Warrior Prophecyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dbM93FALE Bardohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo ‘Entering the Bardo'https://emergencemagazine.org/op_ed/entering-the-bardo/ Maitreyahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya Ho Chi Minhhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh Śūnyatāhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81Svabhava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svabhava Kṣitigarbhahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha Parallax Presshttps://www.parallax.org/ Ānāpānasatihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapanasati Satipaṭṭhānahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satipatthana Quotes “Do not be afraid of feeling pain for the world. Do not be afraid of the suffering, but take it. That’s what a bodhisattva learns to do, and that makes your heart very big.” “Life is only difficult for those who pick and choose. You just take it. And that helps you feel whole, and maybe flying with the birds helps you be with the deep levels of hell. But this is life and it’s all given to us and it’s given free.” “It doesn’t take a poet; all of us can feel that there are times when a shadow passes over our mood and we taste the tears. Taste the tears. They’re salty. It’s the living Earth. We are part of this.” “All Rilke says is, ‘Give me the time so I can love the things.' As if that’s the great commandment. So I want more time to do what I’m made to do. Why else do we have these hearts with more neurons in them than our brains? Why else are we given eyes that can see the beauty of this world and ears that can hear such beautiful poetry? And lungs that can breathe the air. We have to use these things for tasting and loving our world. And if she’s ailing, now is the time to love her more.” “You are the environment; the environment is not outside of you.” “We are in a space without a map. With the likelihood of economic collapse and climate catastrophe looming, it feels like we are on shifting ground, where old habits and old scenarios no longer apply. In Tibetan Buddhism, such a space or gap between known worlds is called a bardo. It is frightening. It is also a place of potential transformation. As you enter the bardo, there facing you is the Buddha Akshobhya. His element is Water. He is holding a mirror, for his gift is Mirror Wisdom, reflecting everything just as it is. And the teaching of Akshobhya's mirror is this: Do not look away. Do not avert your gaze. Do not turn aside. This teaching clearly calls for radical attention and total acceptance.”“We all have an appointment, and that appointment is with life. And if we can touch that in each moment, our life will become more beautiful when we allow ourselves to arrive at that appointment.” “Even in despair, we have to enjoy life, because we see life as beautiful; [we see] that planet Earth is still a miracle.” “We know we are still alive, and because we are alive, anything is possible. So let us take care of the situation in a more calm and mindful way.” “Even wholesome things can become a distraction if you make them take the place of your sheer presence to life.” “Maybe this really will be the last chapter. But I’m here, and how fortunate I am to be here. And I have imagined that it’s so wonderful to be here.” “Impermanence: the fragrance of our day.”

Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 20, 2025. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org

Jesse Browner is the author of the novels Sing to Me (Little Brown, 2025) The Uncertain Hour and Everything Happens Today, among others, as well as of the memoir How Did I Get Here? He is also the translator of works by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthieu Ricard and other French literary masters. He lives in New York City. Recommended Books: Cormac McCarthy, The Road Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires Susanna Clarke, Piranesi Dezso Kosztolanyi, Skylark Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesse Browner is the author of the novels Sing to Me (Little Brown, 2025) The Uncertain Hour and Everything Happens Today, among others, as well as of the memoir How Did I Get Here? He is also the translator of works by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthieu Ricard and other French literary masters. He lives in New York City. Recommended Books: Cormac McCarthy, The Road Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires Susanna Clarke, Piranesi Dezso Kosztolanyi, Skylark Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Jesse Browner is the author of the novels Sing to Me (Little Brown, 2025) The Uncertain Hour and Everything Happens Today, among others, as well as of the memoir How Did I Get Here? He is also the translator of works by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthieu Ricard and other French literary masters. He lives in New York City. Recommended Books: Cormac McCarthy, The Road Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires Susanna Clarke, Piranesi Dezso Kosztolanyi, Skylark Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Blumen können sprechen, und Blumengebinde taugen zu stillen Botschafterinnen. Das eine Vergissmeinnicht im Wiesenstrauß, die eine gelbe oder rote Rose im Bukett: Adressaten wissen oft die Nachricht zu erkennen. Von solcher verschwiegenen Botschaft eines Blumenkranzes dichtet Karoline von Günderode in ihrem anrührenden Sonett „Zueignung“: Nur einer, weiß sie, kann es dechiffrieren. Dazu stellen Lyrik-Podcast-Gastgeber Susanne Garsoffky und Friedemann Magaard „Die Sprache der Blumen“ von Rainer Maria Rilke, dem Seelenfutter-Leib-und-Magen-Dichter, eine Aufforderung, mit offenen Augen und offenen Herzen aufzunehmen, was die Blumen über das Leben und über den Schöpfer mitzuteilen haben. Dazu gibt es Bibelworte nach Johannes und Matthäus. Ein bunter Seelenfutter-Strauß.

Episode Summary:Growing up evangelical required a preoccupation with external behaviors and moral performance, or what I now understand as sin management. My spiritual life was fear based. Behaviors like sexuality, masturbation, swearing, or drinking were litmus tests of spiritual maturity. The more you controlled, hid, or projected your external behaviors onto others, the closer you were to God. Behavior modification, external conformity, and the avoidance of sin was my ticket out of Hell. In evangelicalism, I was a problem to be fixed, not a person to be loved. What an anemic and harmful understanding of spirituality.Leaving white evangelicalism meant finding deeper streams of spiritual wisdom. Instead of this hyper-fixation on what I was doing, inner Christianity helped me recognize God's eternal presence at the core of my being, no matter what I was doing. God isn't some external deity I need to placate, God is the lover of my soul. As I spiritually mature, I'm coming to realize the importance of cultivating my inner life instead of worrying about external behaviors. Or as Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “The only journey is the one within."External Christianity is about salvation in the afterlife. Inner Christianity is about personal transformation in this life. Contemplative or inner spirituality doesn't ignore sin—it just approaches it differently. Instead of managing sin, it invites us to be still, to listen, and to let God transform us at the root. “Christ did not preach a mere ethical or social gospel but an uncompromisingly spiritual one. He declared that God can be seen, that Divine perfection can be achieved,” writes Swami Prabhavananda in his seminal work The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta. Where does this leave us? How do we cultivate our interior life instead of focusing so much on externals? How do we focus on roots instead of fruits? I rarely quote Augustine, but he's on point about this. "Do not look outside; return to yourself. In our interior the truth resides.” I'll give that an amen. In this final episode in season five, I'm honored to be joined by psychotherapist, philosopher, and mystic Dr. Mark Vernon. Mark is a writer, psychotherapist and former Anglican priest. He contributes to programs on BBC radio, writes and reviews for newspapers and magazines, gives talks and frequently podcasts. His books cover themes including friendship and God, William Blake and Dante, ancient Greek philosophy and wellbeing. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy, and other degrees in physics and in theology. Dr. Vernon's writings and teachings are deeply rooted in the inner life, exploring how we can cultivate spiritual depth and meaning in the modern world. You can connect with Dr. Vernon here!Thanks for listening!Please Follow us on social media (use the buttons below) and help us get the word out! (Also, please don't hesitate to use any of these channels or email to contact us with any questions, concerns, or feedback.)If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review, or share on your socials

Rainer Maria Rilke. „Maltės Lauridso Brigės užrašai“. Vertė Antanas Gailius, Išleido leidykla „Vaga“.Tai pirmasis modernistinis vokiečių literatūros romanas. Jaunasis nusigyvenusios kilmingos danų giminės palikuonis Maltė leidžia dienas Paryžiuje. Nirdamas į vaikystės vaizdinius, sieja juos su suaugusiojo dabartimi ir taip atskleidžia būties paslaptis. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Ramūnas Abukevičius.

Rainer Maria Rilke. „Maltės Lauridso Brigės užrašai“. Vertė Antanas Gailius, Išleido leidykla „Vaga“.Tai pirmasis modernistinis vokiečių literatūros romanas. Jaunasis nusigyvenusios kilmingos danų giminės palikuonis Maltė leidžia dienas Paryžiuje. Nirdamas į vaikystės vaizdinius, sieja juos su suaugusiojo dabartimi ir taip atskleidžia būties paslaptis. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Ramūnas Abukevičius.

Rainer Maria Rilke. „Maltės Lauridso Brigės užrašai“. Vertė Antanas Gailius, Išleido leidykla „Vaga“.Tai pirmasis modernistinis vokiečių literatūros romanas. Jaunasis nusigyvenusios kilmingos danų giminės palikuonis Maltė leidžia dienas Paryžiuje. Nirdamas į vaikystės vaizdinius, sieja juos su suaugusiojo dabartimi ir taip atskleidžia būties paslaptis. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Ramūnas Abukevičius.

Rainer Maria Rilke. „Maltės Lauridso Brigės užrašai“. Vertė Antanas Gailius, Išleido leidykla „Vaga“.Tai pirmasis modernistinis vokiečių literatūros romanas. Jaunasis nusigyvenusios kilmingos danų giminės palikuonis Maltė leidžia dienas Paryžiuje. Nirdamas į vaikystės vaizdinius, sieja juos su suaugusiojo dabartimi ir taip atskleidžia būties paslaptis. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Ramūnas Abukevičius.

Rainer Maria Rilke. „Maltės Lauridso Brigės užrašai“. Vertė Antanas Gailius, Išleido leidykla „Vaga“.Tai pirmasis modernistinis vokiečių literatūros romanas. Jaunasis nusigyvenusios kilmingos danų giminės palikuonis Maltė leidžia dienas Paryžiuje. Nirdamas į vaikystės vaizdinius, sieja juos su suaugusiojo dabartimi ir taip atskleidžia būties paslaptis. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Ramūnas Abukevičius.

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This week on Talk World Radio we are hearing and discussing poetry about Gaza. Our guest, Anita Barrows, is a poet, novelist, and translator from French, German and Italian. She has eighteen published books and a nineteenth on its way. She and Joanna Macy have translated four volumes of the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, and many of their translated poems have been used in weddings and other ceremonies, and set to music. Anita is a clinical psychologist and teaches in a psychology doctoral program, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, where she is a tenured Institute Professor. She maintains a clinical practice where she sees children and adults with a history of trauma or neurodivergence. Anita Barrows worked for five summers at The Palestinian Counseling Center in Ramallah (in the Occupied West Bank) and she has had a longstanding commitment to the liberation of Palestine. See https://poemsforgaza.com

Transcendence Meditation for Embracing Uncertainty & Trusting LifeGuided Sound Meditation Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke | Live the QuestionsWelcome to this deeply grounding guided transcendence meditation, inspired by the timeless wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke:"Try to love the questions themselves… and live the questions now."In a world obsessed with certainty and answers, we often struggle with the unknown. This meditation is here to help you let go of the need for immediate answers, embrace uncertainty, and develop trust in the unfolding of life.By using sound as your anchor, you will train your mind to move beyond mental noise, beyond the pressure of control — and into deep inner stillness.✨ What You'll Experience in This Meditation:✔ Wisdom Reflection: Explore Rilke's teaching on living the questions and embracing uncertainty✔ Letting Go Practice: Release the need for control, clarity, and instant answers✔ Sound as Anchor: A calming, steady guide to bring you back to presence✔ Transcendence Practice: Move beyond thought and reconnect with your deepest, most peaceful self

In this long-lost recording made for KQED San Francisco (circa 2006), M. Allen Cunningham reads from his second book Lost Son, a large experimental narrative about Rainer Maria Rilke. At age twenty-one, while living as an obscure, penurious poet in Munich, Rilke met Lou Andreas-Salome. She would quickly become one of the most important people in his life, and would remain one of his most profound influences. This excerpt begins with their meeting, and renders the young Rilke in his most unrestrained Romantic phase. It was an important early stage of his poetic development, but Lou would ultimately guide him into deeper artistic and intellectual waters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. —Rainer Maria RilkeFriends,On our unique paths of initiation as women and men, we often encounter the severe mercy—the painful hope—of having our illusion of control shattered by the rebellious parts of our own souls.The infant, longing for nourishment. The toddler, yearning for eye contact and the smile of an attentive parent. The boyish hope and daring of a third-grade cowboy. The angry teenager, thirsting for a strength both within and beyond himself. The older man, carrying an unsung song in his heart.When we finally summon the courage to face the collective of young men within us, what do we do?To whom do we turn?I suggest that the invitation and intention of Jesus Christ is to welcome, see, love, know, sustain, restore, and champion all the uninitiated men within us—bringing them into an effectively organized community, fully held together and integrated by Him.With permission, this episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at an authentic, real-time mentoring call with a courageous apprentice. He is noticing the parts within and creating a safe space for each one to embark on the journey ever closer to Home.Join me as his story unfolds, opening access to our own stories in ways beyond what we can yet imagine.For the Kingdom,Morgan & Cherie

What happens when we trace the unexpected influences between seemingly unrelated poetic traditions? In this exploration of German poetry's impact on American counterculture, we discover the fascinating connections between renowned German-language poets Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Salon with Cleveland's underground literary icon DA Levy.Levy, a Cleveland poet and publisher active in the 1960s who faced obscenity trials and ultimately committed suicide, created work that resonates with Rilke's mystical poetics in surprising ways. Both poets use angels not as mere symbols but as modes of address to readers – inviting us into a space where beauty and terror coexist, where mortality is acknowledged as the very thing that gives life its meaning.As we examine Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend" alongside his more famous Duino Elegies, we see how his approach to mythology established patterns that would later emerge in Levy's work, despite their vastly different cultural contexts. The conversation expands to include translation theory, with insights from contemporary translators Pierre Joris and Johannes Göransson who understand translation not as equivalence but as transformation – every act of writing being itself a translation of experience into language.We also examine how Levy's Buddhist influences connect him more meaningfully to Gary Snyder than to the Beat poets with whom he's often categorized, revealing the complexity of his literary lineage. From Federico García Lorca's concept of duende to the rich ethnic diversity of Cleveland's literary scene, this discussion illuminates how poetry transcends borders while remaining deeply rooted in specific geographies and experiences.Have you discovered DA Levy yet? His work, much of it being republished through Between the Highway Press, offers a portal into a uniquely American poetic vision that draws from international traditions while speaking directly to readers with urgent, transformative power.Links mentioned in the video: https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/01/alexander-hammond-benedict-from.html?m=1https://rilkepoetry.com/duino-elegies/first-duino-elegy/http://homestar.org/bryannan/duino.htmlhttps://herhalfofhistory.com/2023/07/13/requiem-for-paula-modersohn-becker-by-rainer-maria-rilke/https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/new-from-aboveground-press-fragments-of.htmlhttps://betweenthehighway.org/Send us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid: it is the conviction that everything is conspiring to support you, delight in you, and help you along. This is how divine love works in our lives.SLIDES GEORGE READ Love is not some small minded ideal that we bypass on the way to weightier theological principles. We will spend the rest of our lives learning to love more passionately, intimately, intentionally, and transformationally. There is no higher call.—Jayson D. BradleyBelieve in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.  —Rainer Maria Rilke

Als Elissa Hiersemann Lael Neale 2021 für ihre radioeins-Sendung "Swagga" interviewte, traf sie auf einen bekennenden "Morgenmenschen", der dem aktuellen Albumtitel "Acquainted With Night" gemäß gerade Bekanntschaft mit der Nacht gemacht beziehungsweise diese musikalisch verarbeitet hatte – und das auf äußerst einnehmende Weise. Auch kamen der Künstlerin Liebe zur Naturprosa von Dichtern wie Rainer Maria Rilke oder Rumi sowie die besondere Bedeutung des Omnichords für die Musik der aus dem ländlichen Virginia stammenden Neale zur Sprache. Jenes in der Pop-Welt eher seltene elektronische Instrument ist auch auf "Altogether Stranger" zu hören, dem vor wenigen Tagen veröffentlichten neuen, vierten Album unseres heutigen studioeins-Gastes. Dieses wurde inspiriert vom Gefühl der Fremdheit, das Lael beschlich, als sie in ihre Wahlheimat Los Angeles zurückkehrte, die sie 2020 zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie verlassen hatte. In neun unaufgeregten, aber alles andere als belanglosen Songs mit einfallsreichen, klugen Texten erzählt sie aus der Außenseiter-Perspektive eines "Alien" von der Sonderbarkeit des menschlichen Alltagsdaseins. Für die musikalische Umsetzung zwischen Garagen-Pop, "Omnichord-Meditationen" und minimalistischen New Wave-Sounds, bei der pluckernde und zischelnde antiquierte Drum-Machines im Wechsel mit Schellenkränzen den Takt vorgeben, setzt Neale ganz auf eine Lo-Fi-Ästhetik, in die sich das Grundrauschen der Natur immer mal wieder durch alte Gitarrenverstärker hineinzuschleichen scheint und die den idealen Rahmen für ihre zugleich zurückhaltend zarte wie ausdrucksstarke Stimme und wirkungsvollen, gerne verspielten Gesangsmelodien bildet. Am 21. Mai gibt Lael Neale in der Kantine am Berghain ein Konzert, einen kleinen Vorgeschmack bekommen wir bereits heute Abend im studioeins, wo sie einige Songs auf der kleinen Bühne live spielen wird, nachdem sie sich im Interview vorgestellt hat.

Portrait des Schauspielers mit Lesung aus Text von Rainer Maria Rilke.

“Art is a form of prayer … a way to enter into relationship.”Artist and theologian Bruce Herman reflects on the sacred vocation of making, resisting consumerism, and the divine invitation to become co-creators. From Mark Rothko to Rainer Maria Rilke, to Andres Serrano's “Piss Christ” and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, he comments on the holy risk of artmaking and the sacred fire of creative origination.Together with Evan Rosa, Bruce Herman explores the divine vocation of art making as resistance to consumer culture and passive living. In this deeply poetic and wide-ranging conversation—and drawing from his book *Makers by Nature—*he invites us into a vision of art not as individual genius or commodity, but as service, dialogue, and co-creation rooted in love, not fear. They touch on ancient questions of human identity and desire, the creative implications of being made in the image of God, Buber's I and Thou, the scandal of the cross, Eliot's divine fire, Rothko's melancholy ecstasy, and how even making a loaf of bread can be a form of holy protest. A profound reflection on what it means to be human, and how we might change our lives—through beauty, vulnerability, and relational making.Episode Highlights“We are made by a Maker to be makers.”“ I think hope is being stolen from us Surreptitiously moment by moment hour by hour day by day.”“There is no them. There is only us.”“The work itself has a life of its own.”“Art that serves a community.”“You must change your life.” —Rilke, recited by Bruce Herman in reflection on the transformative power of art.“When we're not making something, we're not whole. We're not healthy.”“Making art is a form of prayer. It's a form of entering into relationship.”“Art is not for the artist—any more than it's for anyone else. The work stands apart. It has its own voice.”“We're not merely consumers—we're made by a Maker to be makers.”“The ultimate act of art is hospitality.”Topics and ThemesHuman beings are born to create and make meaningArt as theological dialogue and spiritual resistanceCreative practice as a form of love and worshipChristian art and culture in dialogue with contemporary issuesPassive consumption vs. active creationHow to engage with provocative art faithfullyThe role of beauty, mystery, and risk in the creative processArt that changes you spiritually, emotionally, and intellectuallyThe sacred vocation of the artist in a consumerist worldHow poetry and painting open up divine encounter, particularly in Rainer Maria Rilke's “Archaic Torso of Apollo”Four Quartets and spiritual longing in modern poetryHospitality, submission, and service as aesthetic posturesModern culture's sickness and art as medicineEncountering the cross through contemporary artistic imagination“Archaic Torso of Apollo”Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 –1926We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.About Bruce HermanBruce Herman is a painter, writer, educator, and speaker. His art has been shown in more than 150 exhibitions—nationally in many US cities, including New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston—and internationally in England, Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Canada, and Israel. His artwork is featured in many public and private art collections including the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art in Rome; The Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts print collection; The Grunewald Print Collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; DeCordova Museum in Boston; the Cape Ann Museum; and in many colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada.Herman taught at Gordon College for nearly four decades, and is the founding chair of the Art Department there. He held the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts for more than fifteen years, and continues to curate exhibitions and manage the College art collection there. Herman completed both BFA and MFA degrees at Boston University College of Fine Arts under American artists Philip Guston, James Weeks, David Aronson, Reed Kay, and Arthur Polonsky. He was named Boston University College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2006.Herman's art may be found in dozens of journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and online art features. He and co-author Walter Hansen wrote the book Through Your Eyes, 2013, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, a thirty-year retrospective of Herman's art as seen through the eyes of his most dedicated collector.To learn more, explore A Video Portrait of the Artist and My Process – An Essay by Bruce Herman.Books by Bruce Herman*Makers by Nature: Letters from a Master Painter on Faith, Hope, and Art* (2025) *Ordinary Saints (*2018) *Through Your Eyes: The Art of Bruce Herman (2013) *QU4RTETS with Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, Christopher Theofanidis, Jeremy Begbie (2012) A Broken Beauty (2006)Show NotesBruce Herman on Human Identity as MakersWe are created in the image of God—the ultimate “I Am”—and thus made to create.“We are made by a Maker to be makers.”To deny our creative impulse is to risk a deep form of spiritual unhealth.Making is not just for the “artist”—everyone is born with the capacity to make.Theological Themes and Philosophical FrameworksInfluences include Martin Buber's “I and Thou,” René Girard's scapegoating theory, and the image of God in Genesis.“We don't really exist for ourselves. We exist in the space between us.”The divine invitation is relational, not autonomous.Desire, imitation, and submission form the core of our relational anthropology.Art as Resistance to Consumerism“We begin to enter into illness when we become mere consumers.”Art Versus PropagandaCulture is sickened by passive consumption, entertainment addiction, and aesthetic commodification.Making a loaf of bread, carving wood, or crafting a cocktail are acts of cultural resistance.Desire“Anything is resistance… Anything is a protest against passive consumption.”Art as Dialogue and Submission“Making art is a form of prayer. It's a form of entering into relationship.”Submission—though culturally maligned—is a necessary posture in love and art.Engaging with art requires openness to transformation.“If you want to really receive what a poem is communicating, you have to submit to it.”The Transformative Power of Encountering ArtQuoting Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo: “You must change your life.”True art sees the viewer and invites them to become something more.Herman's own transformative moment came unexpectedly in front of a Rothko painting.“The best part of my work is outside of my control.”Scandal, Offense, and the Cross in ArtAnalyzing Andres Serrano's Piss Christ as a sincere meditation on the commercialization of the cross.“Does the crucifixion still carry sacred weight—or has it been reduced to jewelry?”Art should provoke—but out of love, not self-aggrandizement or malice.“The cross is an offense. Paul says so. But it's the power of God for those being saved.”Beauty, Suffering, and Holy RiskEncounter with art can arise from personal or collective suffering.Bruce references Christian Wiman and Walker Percy as artists opened by pain.“Sometimes it takes catastrophe to open us up again.”Great art offers not escape, but transformation through vulnerability.The Fire and the Rose: T. S. Eliot's InfluenceFour Quartets shaped Herman's artistic and theological imagination.Eliot's poetry is contemplative, musical, liturgical, and steeped in paradox.“To be redeemed from fire by fire… when the fire and the rose are one.”The collaborative Quartets project with Makoto Fujimura and Chris Theofanidis honors Eliot's poetic vision.Living and Creating from Love, Not Fear“Make from love, not fear.”Fear-driven art (or politics) leads to manipulation and despair.Acts of love include cooking, serving, sharing, and creating for others.“The ultimate act of art is hospitality.”Media & Intellectual ReferencesMakers by Nature by Bruce HermanFour Quartets by T. S. EliotThe Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria RilkeWassily Kandinsky, “On the Spiritual in Art”Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil PostmanThings Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René GirardThe Art of the Commonplace by Wendell BerryAndres Serrano's Piss ChristMakoto Fujimura's Art and Collaboration

Dr. Adam Dorsay hosts Elizabeth Weingarten, author of 'How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty,' on his podcast Dorsay. They discuss the immense value of well-formulated questions in enhancing our lives, especially amid uncertainty. Elizabeth shares her journey of writing the book, sparked by poor dating experiences, and explains how questions can serve as a crucial tool for personal and relational growth. They explore how patience, clarity, and thoughtful inquiry can transform our approach to life's big questions. Additionally, they touch upon insights from poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the importance of living the questions, and the role of curiosity in cultivating relationships.00:00 Introduction to SuperPsyched Podcast00:28 The Power of Questions02:00 Interview with Elizabeth Weingarten03:02 Elizabeth's Journey with Questions04:36 The Role of Uncertainty08:22 Formulating Good Questions13:18 Living with Uncertainty17:45 Personal Reflections and Insights32:04 Final Thoughts and Takeaways41:57 Conclusion and FarewellHelpful Links:Elizabeth Weingarten WebsiteHow to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty Book

What do you do when faced with a big, important question that keeps you up at night? Many people seek quick answers dispensed by “experts,” influencers, and gurus. But these one-size-fits-all solutions often fail to satisfy, and can even cause more pain.  In How to Fall in Love With Questions, Elizabeth Weingarten finds inspiration in a few famous lines from Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, and then takes this insight – to love the questions themselves – to modern science to offer a fresh approach for dealing with the uncertainty in our lives. What if our questions—the ones we ask about relationships, work, meaning, identity, and purpose—are not our tormentors, but our teachers? Weingarten offers a fresh approach for dealing with seemingly unsolvable questions, not as a quick fix but to deepen our sense of being fully alive. Weingarten shares her own journey and the stories of others, including a part of my own story after the events of 9/11 in New York City when I first turned to Rilke's letters, to chart a different, and better, relationship with uncertainty. Designed to inspire anyone who feels stuck, powerless, and drained, How to Fall in Love with Questions challenges us to unlock our minds and embark on the kind of self-discovery that's only possible when we feel most alive—that is, when we don't know what will happen next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What do you do when faced with a big, important question that keeps you up at night? Many people seek quick answers dispensed by “experts,” influencers, and gurus. But these one-size-fits-all solutions often fail to satisfy, and can even cause more pain.  In How to Fall in Love With Questions, Elizabeth Weingarten finds inspiration in a few famous lines from Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, and then takes this insight – to love the questions themselves – to modern science to offer a fresh approach for dealing with the uncertainty in our lives. What if our questions—the ones we ask about relationships, work, meaning, identity, and purpose—are not our tormentors, but our teachers? Weingarten offers a fresh approach for dealing with seemingly unsolvable questions, not as a quick fix but to deepen our sense of being fully alive. Weingarten shares her own journey and the stories of others, including a part of my own story after the events of 9/11 in New York City when I first turned to Rilke's letters, to chart a different, and better, relationship with uncertainty. Designed to inspire anyone who feels stuck, powerless, and drained, How to Fall in Love with Questions challenges us to unlock our minds and embark on the kind of self-discovery that's only possible when we feel most alive—that is, when we don't know what will happen next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Franz Wright was born in Vienna, Austria and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and California. He earned a BA from Oberlin College in 1977. His collections of poetry include The Beforelife (2001); God's Silence (2006); Walking to Martha's Vineyard, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004; Wheeling Motel (2009); Kindertotenwald (2011); and F (2013). In his precisely crafted, lyrical poems, Wright addresses the subjects of isolation, illness, spirituality, and gratitude. Of his work, he has commented, “I think ideally, I would like, in a poem, to operate by way of suggestion.”Critic Helen Vendler wrote in the New York Review of Books, “Wright's scale of experience, like Berryman's, runs from the homicidal to the ecstatic ... His best forms of or originality: deftness in patterning, startling metaphors, starkness of speech, compression of both pain and joy, and a stoic self-possession with the agonies and penalties of existence.” Langdon Hammer, in the New York Times Book Review, wrote of God's Silence: “In his best poems, Wright grasps at the ‘radiantly obvious thing' in short-lined short lyrics that turn and twist down the page. The urgency and calculated unsteadiness of the utterances, with their abrupt shifts of direction, jump-cuts and quips, mime the wounded openness of a speaker struggling to find faith.”Wright received a Whiting Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He translated poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke and Rene Char; in 2008 he and his wife, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, co-translated a collection by the Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears. He taught at Emerson College and other universities, worked in mental health clinics, and volunteered at a center for grieving children. His father was the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet James Wright. He died in 2015. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Quando una mano cerca di scoprire l'uomo, chi scopre davvero? C'è una storia che si perde nel tempo, tra nuvole fitte e previsioni incerte. Parla di un viaggio, di una discesa sulla terra e di un segreto mai svelato.Lo Straniero di Rainer Maria Rilke è un racconto che sfiora il divino, il destino e il mistero dell'essere umano.Fiabe in Carrozza è un progetto indipendenteProdotto e curato da Filippo CarrozzoIllustrazioni e grafica: Alice BarbàraEtà: 6+(Suggerita anche per lettura ad alta voce con i più piccoli, accompagnati da un adulto.)Hai una storia che ti sta a cuore e vuoi raccontarcela? Credi nella bellezza del progetto e vuoi aiutarci sostenendolo? Hai domande, pensieri o un semplice saluto?Scrivici a fiabeincarrozza@gmail.comoppure visita www.mentesauri.it per scoprire il progetto e ascoltare tanti altri podcast.

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Hello to you listening in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.I paused my computer screen saver as it pulled up a photo from my Camino pilgrimage: a lake in a town on a sunny day - and swans. Graceful, regal, fully in their watery element, no longer bound to the land. While swans can lumber across the ground swaying dangerously side to side, their element is water. That's where they belong.  Following is a version of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem - The Swan - translated by Robert Bly:“This clumsy living that moves lumberingas if in ropes through what is not done,reminds us of the awkward way the swan walks.And to die, which is the letting goof the ground we stand on and cling to every day,is like the swan, when he nervously lets himself down into the water, which receives him gailyand which flows joyfully underand after him, wave after wave,while the swan, unmoving and marvelously calm,is pleased to be carried, each moment more fully grown, more like a king, further and further on.”Maybe like me you've been asking yourself: What is my element? Where do I belong? How will I find it? Could it be looking for me?Question: What is your element? How do you know?You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Communication Session,✓ Stay current with Diane on Substack as Wyzga on WordsStories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. 

Der österreichische Lyriker Rainer Maria Rilke wird bis heute verehrt, nicht nur in Popsongs. Junge Menschen rezitieren heute auf den sozialen Medien seine Gedichte. – Der Emmentaler Jodok Vuille hat als Violinist das Netz erobert und geht jetzt auf Welttournee. Rilke ist in – auch 150 Jahre, nachdem er geboren wurde. Seine Gedichte wie «Der Panther» oder «Herbsttag» tauchen in Popsongs auf. Junge Menschen schwärmen auf TikTok und Instagram von Rilkes Texten und rezitieren seine Gedichte. Und Musik-Ikonen wie Lady Gaga lassen sich Rilke-Zitate tätowieren. Warum begeistert diese über hundert Jahre alte, oft melancholische Sprache eine junge Generation bis heute? Und was macht Rainer Maria Rilke für Instagram und TikTok tauglich? Eine Buch-Influencerin, ein Popsänger und ein Literaturwissenschaftler erzählen von der Faszination für Rilke. Der Emmentaler Jodok Vuille spielt Pop-Covers auf dem Cello. Seine Bühne: Instagram, TikTok und Co. Bekannt geworden ist er mit Musik-Videos vor spektakulärer Schweizer Bergkulisse. Mittlerweile hat er mehr als elf Millionen Follower auf den sozialen Medien. Er hat mit internationalen Musik-Grössen wie Lindsey Stirling und Teddy Swims gearbeitet, zieht Werbeverträge an Land und trat vor der katarischen Königsfamilie auf. Seinen Job als Musik- und Sportlehrer hängt er nun an den Nagel, um sich ganz auf «Jodokcello» zu konzentrieren und auf eine Welttournee zu gehen.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation” (Henry Thoreau).  In this classic episode, Andrew interviews therapist SIMON ROE. Simon has based his life's work on helping men live an authentic life. After himself going through a period of quiet desperation in his mid-thirties, he went on to help men break the silence, find “the song inside” and overcome their experiences of depression, violence and loneliness.  Simon has also worked extensively with boys and their fathers to create rites of passage that help boys claim a strong, authentic sense of their developing manhood. Simon Roe originally trained as a body psychotherapist, and is also a co-leader of the Mandorla Men's Rites of Passage programme. He has worked extensively with perpetrators of domestic violence, and is a Respect approved trainer and supervisor. Simon is also trained in process oriented psychology.  Simon and Andrew also discuss the idea of answering “the call to adventure”, an idea powerfully captured in this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke: Sometimes A Man Stands Up During Supper Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.   And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.   And another man, who remains inside his own house, dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church , which he forgot. Rainer Maria Rilke ( trans. Robert Bly)   If You're Looking for More…. You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests  and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50.  This week supporters will hear: Three Things Simon Roe knows to be true.  AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees. Follow Up Get Andrew's free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things  Take a look at Andrew's new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools   Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin.  Visit Simon Roe's website  Learn about the Kingfisher Project, a community dedicated to rites of passage for boys aged 13-16.  Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50.  Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall 

Host, Lisa Colon DeLay and Mark S. Burrows discuss his new books and translation projects of poet Rainer Maria Rilke in a fascinating conversation.

Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Rainer Maria Rilke's “You Who Never Arrived" and “Be Ahead of All Parting” (II.13 from his “Sonnets to Orpheus”), and whether—as Rilke suggests—death can be put in service of life, and suffering sourced as the principal wellspring of a joyful existence.

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In his poem “You Who Never Arrived,” Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that we can mourn love as an unrealized possibility, and see this loss signified everywhere in the ordinary objects of the external world. In “Be Ahead of All Parting” (II.13 from his “Sonnets to Orpheus”), he seems to claim that poetry has the capacity to redeem such losses—and retrieve them, so to speak, from their underworld. Wes & Erin discuss these two classics, and whether—as Rilke suggests—death can be put in service of life, and suffering sourced as the principal wellspring of a joyful existence.

Paule Amblard est historienne de l'Art et aussi de la Spiritualité du Moyen-Âge. Elle a écrit de nombreux ouvrages comme Le pèlerinage intérieur, ou Les enfants de Notre Dame. Il y a près de deux ans, Paule Amblard avait déjà emmené beaucoup d'auditeurs de Zeteo avec elle, au cours d'un épisode captivant consacré au pèlerinage de l'âme après la mort. C'était à l'occasion de la parution de son livre La chambre de l'âme, qui s'appuyait sur un manuscrit médiéval et qui comportait aussi une dimension autobiographique. Avec elle, nous retournons au cœur du Moyen-Âge : Paule Amblard nous raconte les grands traits de l'histoire de Notre Dame de Paris, depuis sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours, un récit qu'elle développe dans le nouveau livre qu'elle vient de publier : Notre Dame de Paris, les symboles des pierres. En fait, c'est à un nouveau pèlerinage que Paule Amblard nous invite : un cheminement qui va du visible vers l'invisible, de l'extériorité vers l'intériorité, du parvis de la cathédrale jusqu'au saint des saints du chœur. Un chemin qui nous révèle à quel point tout est intrinsèquement lié et inséparable. Le partage de Paule Amblard est enthousiasmant, parce que sa passion est rayonnante. À notre tour, nous sommes invités à un cheminement bouleversant, à l'évocation des symboles, des fresques, des scènes innombrables que nous offre l'Art sacré de Notre Dame de Paris. Nous revivons les grands moments de l'histoire du salut que ce monument hors du commun nous rappelle. Nous comprenons comment le mal peut être combattu, la peur surmontée et même accueillie, comme le dit si bien Rainer Maria Rilke que cite Paule Amblard : « Tous les dragons de notre vie sont peut-être des princesses qui attendent de nous voir beaux et courageux. Toutes les choses terrifiantes ne sont peut-être que des choses sans secours qui attendent que nous les secourions » Nous avions tous été profondément atteints par l'incendie de Notre Dame de Paris et par la menace de son entière destruction. Nous avions alors mesuré l'importance de cette cathédrale dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, magnifiquement rénovée, elle offre à l'humanité un symbole très fort de résurrection, qui survient en des temps agités où nous en avons tant besoin. Pour lire Notre Dame de Paris, les symbole des pierres, le livre de Paule Amblard, cliquer ici. TERRASSER NOS DRAGONS  Chers amis, chers auditeurs de Zeteo, Il semble qu'il y a des temps où les peurs se propagent davantage que d'autres. Des temps où le mal semble plus à l'œuvre, comme s'il était libéré de tous freins, et qu'il menaçait de couvrir la terre du feu de sa colère, de ses guerres et de ses désolations. Pour certains, l'époque que nous vivons en ce moment est inquiétante. Il y aurait même des relents qui font penser aux années Trente. Pour d'autres, le cœur de l'hiver où nous sommes est toujours un moment difficile à passer, peut-être à cause du froid, de l'absence de lumière, des ciels ternes et bas où l'azur et le lointain sont trop longtemps absents. L'épisode que nous diffusons dès aujourd'hui, avec Paule Amblard et au sujet de Notre Dame de Paris, est un formidable remède ! Il offre un cheminement bouleversant, celui que nous propose l'art sacré d'une cathédrale ressuscitée. De nombreuses fresques, statues, scènes inscrites dans les symboles des pierres de Notre Dame de Paris nous apprennent à surmonter toutes nos peurs. Elles nous conduisent aussi à une bouleversante conversion, celle qui consiste à accueillir nos peurs, à consoler l'enfant apeuré en nous, à ouvrir nos cœurs en toute confiance à la bienveillance divine. Ce dragon que terrassent Saint Michel ou Saint Georges, c'est celui du mal qui étreint le monde autant que nos cœurs. C'est le merveilleux enseignement de ce nouvel épisode de Zeteo. Les difficultés ne disparaîtront peut-être pas. Mais en terrassant nos dragons, grâce à l'aide de nos amis célestes, nous ne leur permettons pas de nous anéantir, et nous desserrons déjà leurs étreintes angoissantes et paralysantes. Comme nous l'écrivions la semaine passée, cette période de l'année est également la plus difficile pour Zeteo. Celle au cours de laquelle la récolte de dons est la plus faible. Nous tenons ici à remercier chaleureusement ceux qui ont répondu à l'appel de dimanche dernier. Et nous faisons appel à ceux qui peuvent à leur tour se joindre à cet effort particulier du moment. Ici, Zeteo a besoin de vous, auditeurs, pour terrasser son dragon ! Nous sommes confiants et accueillons tout ce qui vient et viendra de la bienveillance infinie du Ciel, Fraternellement, Guillaume Devoud  Pour faire un don, il suffit de cliquer ici pour aller sur notre compte de paiement de dons en ligne sécurisé par HelloAsso. Ou de cliquer ici pour aller sur notre compte Paypal. Vos dons sont défiscalisables à hauteur de 66% : par exemple, un don de 50€ ne coûte en réalité que 17€. Le reçu fiscal est généré automatiquement et immédiatement à tous ceux qui passent par la plateforme de paiement sécurisé en ligne de HelloAsso Nous délivrons directement un reçu fiscal à tous ceux qui effectuent un paiement autrement (Paypal, chèque à l'association Telio, 116 boulevard Suchet, 75016 Paris – virement : nous écrire à info@zeteo.fr ).   Pour lire d'autres messages de nos auditeurs : cliquer ici. Pour en savoir plus au sujet de Zeteo, cliquer ici. Pour en savoir plus au sujet de Bethesda, cliquer ici. Pour en savoir plus au sujet de Telio, cliquer ici. 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Anne Ghesquière reçoit Jean-Yves Leloup, écrivain, prêtre orthodoxe, thérapeute, philosophe, théologien, auteur de de plus de 70 ouvrages sur les origines du christianisme et la rencontre des religions. Qui aime, qui pense et qui agit en moi ? Nous allons tenter de répondre à ces questions essentielles avec Jean-Yves Leloup qui nous interroge à travers son nouveau livre, Qui est le Maître intérieur : qui oriente mes désirs et mes pensées, à qui puis-je accorder ma confiance ou ma foi, qui a autorité sur moi ? Et pour nous guider à la présence intérieure, il évoque dans son nouvel ouvrage le lien aux anges dans les grandes traditions spirituelles mais aussi de l'intuition poétique de l'immense poète Rainer Maria Rilke et de la psychologie contemporaine. [REDIFFUSION – BEST OF – MÉTAMORPHOSE]Le podcast #251 a été diffusé, la première fois, le 23 décembre 2021.Quelques citations du podcast avec Jean-Yves Leloup :"On n'a pas d'autre maître que le vivant, que la vie""Dieu ne possède personne, il éclaire notre liberté""Notre désir est fait pour l'infini et l'infini seul peut le combler""Le rôle du maître extérieur est de nous ramener au maître intérieur"Thèmes abordés lors du podcast avec Jean-Yves Leloup : 00:00 Introduction01:59 Pourquoi obéir à son "maître intérieur" ?03:30 Qui parle en nous ?04:48 Comment discerner les bonnes voix en nous ?06:06 Qu'est-ce que la joie véritable ?07:05 Quels sont les différents maîtres extérieurs ?14:22 Notre nature entre profondeur et élévation.17:02 Les enseignements de la poésie de Rilke.19:48 Prendre le temps de la solitude pour mieux aimer.21:01 D'où vient le désir ?Avant-propos et précautions à l'écoute du podcast Recevez un mercredi sur deux la newsletter Métamorphose avec des infos inédites sur le podcast et les inspirations d'AnneFaites le TEST gratuit de La Roue Métamorphose avec 9 piliers de votre vie !Suivez nos RS : Insta, Facebook & TikTokAbonnez-vous sur Apple Podcast / Spotify / Deezer / CastBox/ YoutubeSoutenez Métamorphose en rejoignant la Tribu MétamorphosePhoto DR Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Ralph welcomes back Hassan El-Tayyab, the Legislative Director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation to talk about the FCNL's recent lobbying efforts in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the recently-introduced bill to restore funding to UNRWA. Then, Ralph is joined by journalist Rachel Corbett to discuss her recent article for the NY Times Magazine "The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down" about Próspera, the private, for-profit city off the coast of Honduras. Finally, our resident international-law expert Bruce Fein stops by to discuss Israel's recent coordinated attacks in Lebanon. Hassan El-Tayyab is Legislative Director for Middle East policy and Advocacy Organizer at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). Previously, he was co-director of the national advocacy group Just Foreign Policy, where he worked to reassert Congressional war authority and promote human rights in the Middle East and Latin America. He played a major role in the successful passage of the War Powers Resolution to end US military aid to the Saudi-UAE coalition's war in Yemen. I've been reading a recent statement that the Friends Committee has put out on the Gaza situation. They just can't seem to keep up with the massive expansion of Israeli state terrorism and the death and destruction that's being wrought on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, families, children, mothers, fathers, and the civilian infrastructure. [Their] effort on Capitol Hill—which is a longstanding feature of the Friends Committee on Legislation—seems hopelessly overwhelmed by the AIPAC-led Israeli-government-can-do-no-wrong lobby.Ralph NaderWe try to find common ground. As you know, the Quaker way is to believe that there's a spirit and light in everybody—whether we agree with them or not, we want to engage. And that's just a philosophy that we've had for over 80 years as an organization, and much longer than that as Quakers doing peace advocacy work going back hundreds of years. So we try to engage with everybody. Maybe we don't agree on the weapons shipments, but we can agree on sending US Navy hospital ships to the region. Hassan El-TayyabIf we care about peace, we have to throw down for peace. And not just support humanitarian aid, but actually get involved in the political end of this as well. Because we are spiraling. We're spiraling into a dark place if we don't get our act together.Hassan El-TayyabRachel Corbett is a journalist who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and New York Magazine, among other publications. And she is the author of You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin which won the 2016 Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing.On the one hand, you could almost laugh at something like this. There's so many silly anecdotes that come out of it. And on the other hand, it seems incredibly serious, like something that may be happening underneath the surface that has actually been intentionally happening underneath the surface. I think there's a concerted effort to keep things quiet while these cities get built and become almost too big to tear down… Although they're not that advanced, the sheer money behind them and the influence of the people behind them is serious, and this tribunal case alone proves it could have really serious effects on the actual world.Rachel CorbettBruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law.  Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.There is no way that Israel was able to limit the distribution of the pages to Hezbollah, so they knew that they were taking a very high risk that civilians would be killed or injured—which is a violation of the Geneva Convention prohibition upon resorting to any military endeavor where the risk of harm to civilians is dramatically disproportionate to the military objective at issue.Bruce FeinEven with the low bar that many people present before the Biden administration, it is unsettling to see White House spokespeople day after day knowingly lying about Israel “complying with all laws.”Ralph Nader Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Sean Illing speaks with poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht, whose book The Wonder Paradox asks: If we don't have God or religion, what — if anything — do we lose? They discuss how religion accesses meaning — through things like prayer, ceremony, and ritual — and Jennifer speaks on the ways that poetry can play similar roles in a secular way. They also discuss some of the "tricks" that poets use, share favorite poems, and explore what it would mean to "live the questions" — and even learn to love them — without having the answers. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area Guest: Jennifer Michael Hecht (@Freudeinstein), poet, historian; author References:  The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives by Jennifer Michael Hecht (FSG; 2023) Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht (HarperOne; 2004) Rainer Maria Rilke, from a 1903 letter to Franz Kappus, published in Letters to a Young Poet (pub. 1929) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855) "Why do parrots live so long?" by Charles Q. Choi (LiveScience; May 23, 2022) "The survival of poetry depends on the failure of language," from The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind, and Ecology by Robert Bringhurst (Counterpoint; 2009) "Traveler, There Is No Road" ("Caminante, no hay camino") by Antonio Machado (1917) "A Free Man's Worship" by Bertrand Russell (1903) Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority by Emmanuel Levinas (1961)   Support The Gray Area by becoming a Vox member: https://www.vox.com/support-now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices