What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 1 of 2 Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Read more [...]

Rainer Maria Rilke ~ A Life-Line

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

GO TO THE LIMITS OF YOUR LONGING By Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Autumn The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning “no.” And tonight the heavy earth is falling away from all other stars Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: The second half of life is a summons to the life of the spirit, namely, to ask, and answer for ourselves, uniquely, separately, what matters most. When we resist the many deaths asked of us, we resist the summons into larger Read more [...]

Good Friday: Daring to Let the Darkness Speak

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the Soul divine; Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twines. From “Auguries of Innocence” ~ William Blake “But the thing is, you know you can’t have like a light Read more [...]

Listen Loudly

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Sound is the voice of the Created. Silence is the voice of the Creator. Listen loudly. Speak in whispers. -~ author unknown Because our theme this year is LISTEN LOUDLY, it is necessarily a year of entering into the silence. Silence is not absolutely Read more [...]

Reading Poetry as an Imaginal Act

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

~ 2010-2011 Theme: Poetry for the Sacred Journey ~ One of the most important books that I have read over the years is a thin book (127 pages) by scripture scholar Walter Brueggemann called The Prophetic Imagination. A succinct, eloquent, and powerful Read more [...]

Silence: The Soil of the Soul

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

It begins and ends in silence. It begins and ends in the silence of God. It begins in the dark silence of God moving over the dark face of the waters. It ends in the bright silence of the empty tomb and the bright face of the angelic gardener. Then it Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Rainer Maria Rilke

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Rainer Maria Rilke ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

Good Friday: Daring to Let the Darkness Speak

Listen Loudly

Reading Poetry as an Imaginal Act

Silence: The Soil of the Soul