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Rilke, Book of Hours / Makoto Fujimura

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I’m the one who’s been asking you ––  it hurts to ask –– Who are you? I am orphaned each time the sun goes down.  I can feel cast out from everything and even churches look like prisons.

Rilke, from Book of Hours II, 3

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kierkegaard is like a little creature to me fr

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working thru Fear & Trembling; im only understanding about 80% of this at all times but it absolutely floors me how mr søren takes these life-altering concepts and talks about them so casually. what DOES god require of us? and are we prepared to experience the “martyrdom of unintelligibility” that comes with a true life of faith? he’s harsh towards those who would water-down their exegesis and yet self-aware of his own incapability of embodying the standard he sets forth.

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from Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows’ commentary on Book of Hours

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours, trans. Joanna Macy

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours, trans. Joanna Macy

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Rilke, Book of Hours, trans. Joanna Macy

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Rilke, Book of Hours, trans. Joanna Macy

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said this before (poorly) but truly I believe that every theologian worth his salt is a poet in some way

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours - trans. Joanna Macy

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Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Joanna Macy

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- mary oliver

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The Genesis Trilogy, Madeline L’Engle

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The Lost Art of Scripture, Karen Armstrong

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Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth