Looking at some of Rilke's writings, I found this:
Religion is something infinitely simple, simpleminded. It is not knowledge, not the content of our emotion (for all possible content has already been granted from the beginning wherever a human being engages with life). It is neither duty nor renunciation; it is not limitation, but in the perfect expanse of the universe it is a direction of the heart.
I found that poetic metaphor of religion as a direction of the heart as something wonderful to contemplate. How do you respond to it?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
A Bit of Rilke
Posted by michael at 5:22 PM
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