Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Wind Sucks the Wind From Your Senses
"Deconege del vel sant alt on verdecaine elbenhab. The kings of the world are old and feeble, they bring forth no heirs," he writes. "If metal could escape from coffers and factories and the torn open mountains close around it again, we would be whole." All will come again into its strength: fields undivided, waters undammed, trees towering and walls built low,. And in the valleys, people as strong and varied as the land. No yearning for an after life, no looking beyond, no belittling of death, but only longing for what belongs to us; serving earth lest we remain unused.
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