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Aug 29, 2021
"Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
" --Rainer Maria Rilke
Be Earth Now
"In Rainer Maria Rilkes seminal collection of poetry, The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, the great twentieth-century poet explores the nature ofand his relationship toGod through divinely received prayers. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Anita Barrows, an award-winning poet and translator, and Joanna Macy, a Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher, collaborated to translate this collection. Now, on the new album Be Earth Now, Anita and Joanna recite a selection of these poems. Through their potent recitations, they bring the spirit of Rilkes words fully into our time and remind us of the ever-urgent call to love the world into being."
BE THE CHANGE
For more inspiration check out, "Live the Questions Now," another excerpt from Rilke. More ...
