369 Rilke and the Search for God
The History of Literature
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The Powerful Intuition of the State of Being That Is Called God
i once showed a psychic friend of mine a late photo of rilka, and it took her three hours to recover from the glance. The enlargement of your soul comes with risk. When your heart expands, it becomes easier to break. And then comes this sentence about a parenthetical sentence that mitchell adds that i must have read 30 years ago, but i had forgotten about it completely before now. You can see it in his eyes, the powerful intuition of the state of being that is called god, the huge oppressive longing for it, and the desolation.
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