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Jun 25, 2018
"I have been circling for thousands of years,
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?" --Rainer Maria Rilke
The Focus of the Storm
Joanna Macy reflects on Rilke's Book of Hours, which has served as spiritual nourishment for almost fifty years of soul-searching and activism. "Its images lent some pattern, even meaning, to a life I thought had failed in its spiritual vocation... Now those same lines...shed new light on the patchwork my life had become -- marriage, motherhood, abandoned government career, assortment of jobs, studies in art and language. Perhaps, after all, some unknowable center held me in orbit."
BE THE CHANGE
Macy says, "I could almost feel again the sense of belonging and purpose that I thought I had forfeited." What brings you back to the sense of belonging to something larger, and can you share what helps you with someone else?
