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SUMMARY:Sacred Text Reading Group (Rilke)
DESCRIPTION:Sacred Text Reading Group (Rilke)  \n\n\nA twice-weekly online 
 sacred text reading group. We meet on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\
 , 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome!\n\nUsing a spiritual-practi
 ce approach\, in each session we will explore a different brief scriptural
  text in depth. The aims of the sessions are educational (learning somethi
 ng about the texts and traditions)\, spiritual/moral (discovering what the
  texts ask of us)\, and community-building (getting to know each other bet
 ter). Our practice usually follows this version of Lectio Divina.\n\nAmy w
 ill have a version of the text available to share\; “bring” your own i
 f you like. All are welcome\, as are your suggestions of future texts. Gro
 up members also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n
 \n\n\n\nOur text for Wednesday\, December 22\, 2021 is this passage from R
 ainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)\, an influential Bohemian-Austrian poet. In 
 1902\, when Rilke was 27\, a 18-year-old cadet at the military school Rilk
 e had attended wrote him a letter asking him for advice on writing poetry 
 and choose between a literary career and a career in the army. Over the ne
 xt 6 years\, the two exchanged letters. In 1929\, after Rilke’s death\, 
 the young cadet\, now around 50\, published the letters from Rilke. The fo
 llowing quote is from the fourth letter in the collection\, sent by Rilke 
 in July 1903. (The edition is the Penguin edition of Letters to a Young Po
 et\, translated by Charlie Louth.)\nIf you hold close to nature\, to what 
 is simple in it\, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a
  sudden can become great and immeasurable\; if you have this love for what
  is slight\, and quite unassumingly\, as a servant\, seek to win the confi
 dence of what seems poor – then everything will grow easier\, more unifi
 ed and somehow more conciliatory\, not perhaps in the intellect\, which\, 
 amazed\, remains a step behind\, but in your deepest consciousness\, watch
 fulness and knowledge.\n\nYou are so young\, all still lies ahead of you\,
  and I should like to ask you\, as best I can\, dear Sir\, to be patient t
 owards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questio
 ns themselves like locked rooms\, like books written in a foreign tongue. 
 Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you
  have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. 
 Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually\, without noti
 cing it\, live your way into the answer\, one distant day in the future.\n
 As we sometimes do\, we will explore this text on a Saturday as well\, so 
 if December 18 works better for you\, attend then. And feel free to attend
  both!\n\n\n\n\n\nFor check-in / getting-acquainted time\, and for those w
 ho are new and want a brief orientation to the practice\, the room will be
  open ten minutes before and ten minutes after the session.\n\n\nHow to jo
 in:\n\n\n\n\n 	Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/57
 8882781\n 	Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 578 882 781\n 	
 Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 578 882
  781\n 	Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,578882
 781# US (San Jose)\n 	Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your lo
 cal number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\n\n 
CATEGORIES:Adult
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/578882781
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