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Measuring without Time
This week’s Saturday Meditation comes from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. In Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke wrote,
There is no measuring with time, not even a year matters, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: to neither reckon nor count; to ripen like the tree, which does not rush its sap, and stands firm in the storms of spring, without anxiety that summer may not come after. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there, as if eternity lay before them, so carelessly silent and vast. I learn it daily, learn it with pain, am grateful for it: Patience is all!
One of the challenging aspects of the art of living is the need to let life unfold. Rilke stressed that progress comes from deep within. We must allow our judgments their “own silent and undisturbed development.”
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
How does one learn to ripen like a tree?
What are the obstacles to the practice of patience?
This Week’s Meditations…
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