In this short podcast Krista Tippett brings the words of German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, to life. She describes how she discovered him while in her early 20s, and how his insights gave her "permission to keep on stretching the way I felt called to stretch".
I find her appreciation particularly reassuring during these times that stir deep questions. She describes how the permission he helped her find "has never felt more directly useful and relevant than in this post-2020 world.
"I’ve thought a lot in these years about how Rilke, too, was a citizen of a young century with spectacular and devastating potentials for creating and for destroying.
"And on some level, all of the great challenges before us — ecological, racial, economic, political — are all vast, aching, open questions for which we do not have answers and will not."
Podcast: The On Being Project, Living the Questions
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