false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg 467164 4 While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. <i>Rilke's Book of Hours</i> is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. <br><br> <i>Rilke's Book of Hours</i> shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine--a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now <i>Rilke's Book of Hours</i> tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before. 455528 1 4 1996 Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God total:404|5:248|4:106|3:40|2:8|1:2| 404 1802 592 46 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 1 false Sat Sep 06 17:19:11 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 00:38:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 3 0 false Thu Jun 04 17:13:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 14:45:22 -0700 2009
"I am praying again, Awesome One"
(Ich bete wieder, du Elauchter)

You hear me again, as words
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I love the hours when I’m blue, depressed,
my senses sharpened and I wide awake;
for then I have found, as in letters of late,
my future life lived out like stories
and lived out at best.
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"Maybe you don't know what the nights are like for people who can't sleep. They all feel...more...]]> 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 4 0 false Wed Aug 26 12:14:23 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 12:16:20 -0700 2009
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For we are only the rind and the leaf.

The great death, that each of us carries inside,
is the fruit.

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Regardless..just unique, a thing more than a book. Lonely, infinitely tender and compassionate, deep...more...]]> 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Thu Jan 10 18:11:03 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 18:13:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 49457 1594481563 9781594481567 92 11 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359663m/49457.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49457.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Thu Jun 07 03:24:52 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 16 18:04:46 -0800 2007 more...]]> 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Mon Apr 23 16:49:50 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 23 16:51:29 -0700 2007 49457 1594481563 9781594481567 92 11 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359663m/49457.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49457.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 08:47:02 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 08:48:31 -0800 2007 49457 1594481563 9781594481567 92 11 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359663m/49457.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49457.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sat Dec 01 13:30:07 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 13:35:14 -0800 2007 49457 1594481563 9781594481567 92 11 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359663m/49457.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49457.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Mon Jan 28 21:08:34 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 21:09:33 -0800 2008 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 0 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 21:35:13 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 14:19:49 -0800 2007 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Sun Nov 09 10:44:21 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 10:44:21 -0800 2008 467164 1573225851 9781573225854 307 34 4.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175014182m/467164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.Rilke_s_Book_of_Hours_Love_Poems_to_God 5 0 false Mon Apr 14 11:25:05 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 23:03:31 -0700 2008 If I could close my eyes and read at the same time, this is the book I would pick up. The words are so full and rich, divine...I can almost taste them.
Ich liebe Rilke. :)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=467164