I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
—Rainer Maria Rilke
The mandalas come from various doors and gates in Paris and Vienna.
A Blessing for Creativity*Spirit of Holy Imagination,we ask you to bless our visionwith the wisdom to see what is possible.Help us trust our desire to createthrough color, word, shape, gesture, and song.When our fingers trembleat picking up a pen or marker,connect us to the joy
A Christmas Blessing This blessing dances at the doorwayof light and dark, knows both as sacred:fertile womb space, miracle of blooming.This blessing breathesthrough those moments of laborwhen you too birth the holyinto this fragile, luminous, hurting worldas Mary did two thousand years ago,eyes wide, hands
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Tina Thompson’s reflection on the path to Roman Catholic Women Priesthood. Have you heard of the international movement, Roman Catholic Women Priests
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Beautiful images. This is my first time here. I’ll be checking back in soon.
AAAwe! each mandala is unique, each is universal ~ beautiful.
This is simply beautiful, Christine.
Your readers might like to know that I am hosting a free community project on Facebook for 2013 based on the book, A Year With Rilke. I am hoping that people will share creative art like you have shown here based on each day’s readings. Just look for A Year with Rilke on Facebook.
I am posting this to the page right now.
Rilke really speaks to my heart. “I circle around God.” How well that seems to describe my spiritual journey. I want to get closer, but am still circling.
Lovely, lovely, lovely!
Thank you dear friends!
So much beauty. They don’t make ’em like that anymore.
A shiver of delight…
Thank you.
Beautiful post, Christine!