Winter Rilke Circle: When do I experience belonging?
A monthly call where living with a perennial question meets embodied speaking and listening.
In the spirit of Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice to love and live the questions, please let the Winters’s question—When do I experience belonging? accompany you, and listen for the answers that arise from your direct experience. If you want to join others who are living with this question, participate in our monthly Rilke Circle this Winter. December’s call is free to all as a holiday gift.
Rilke Circles are a playing field for embodied presence that welcomes gesture, shared silence, and all our senses.
Enjoy the Winter’s quotes from Rilke.
Try to Be Close to Things
“When you feel no commonality between yourself and other people, try to be close to Things, which will not abandon you. Nights are still there and winds that blow through the trees and over many lands. Amidst the things and beings of this world, so much is happening that you can take part in. And children are still the way you were as a child, that happy and that sad, and when you think of your childhood you live it again with them, the lonely childhood, and grown-ups count for nothing.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rome, December 23, 1903. Letters to A Young Poet.
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
“God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.Embody me.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from the The Book of Hours, pg. 59
December 18th Rilke Circle 12:00-12:50 PST
Advanced registration is required. Here’s optional reading that provides more details on the purpose, agenda and roles in the call, as well as a video introduction.