{"id":9579,"date":"2022-07-22T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2022-07-22T07:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:05:37","slug":"rainer-maria-rilke-we-are-building-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/rainer-maria-rilke-we-are-building-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evergreen Journal #24 ~ &#8220;We are Building God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, I am sharing some wisdom from one of my favorite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke.\u00a0 If you have never read any of his writings, I think you will find something of value in them.<\/p>\n<p>I often think of Rilke as similar to the brilliance of Augustine &#8211; and Mozart.<\/p>\n<p>There are many parallels when you begin to study each of these three men.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them were blessed with a brilliance in the Genius level of human thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11832\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11832\" data-attachment-id=\"11832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/rainer-maria-rilke-we-are-building-god\/rilke_painting\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke_Painting.webp?fit=300%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rilke_Painting\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A portrait painting of Rilke.  It is a colorful painting in Modernist techniques &amp;#8211; &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Rainer Maria Rilke &amp;#8211; &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke_Painting.webp?fit=300%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke_Painting.webp?resize=188%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke_Painting.webp?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke_Painting.webp?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainer Maria Rilke &#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a quote from Rilke:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2015 Rainer Maria Rilke<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11834\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11834\" data-attachment-id=\"11834\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/rainer-maria-rilke-we-are-building-god\/rilke\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke.webp?fit=321%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"321,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rilke\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Check out the books about and by Rilke on Amazon.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke.webp?fit=321%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11834\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke.webp?resize=201%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke.webp?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke.webp?w=321&amp;ssl=1 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out the books about and by Rilke on Amazon.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">See a collection of books by Rilke at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=rainer+maria+rilke&amp;i=stripbooks&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss\">Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">To learn MORE about Rilke, this is a university lecture that I LOVE.\u00a0 This lecture is by Dr. Gregory Sadler.\u00a0 I kept thinking,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">How MUCH I would love to have been in his philosophy lectures when I was a student at the universities doing my graduate work.\u00a0\u00a0 Philosophy gives us a core to understanding what we encounter in our reading.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5tL0BS88j8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to lecture on Rilke&#8217;s writing here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5tL0BS88j8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Today, I am sharing some wisdom from one of my favorite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke.\u00a0 If you have never read any of his writings, I think you will find something of value in them. I often think of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/rainer-maria-rilke-we-are-building-god\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trusting-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke_Painting.webp?fit=300%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-2uv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12633,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/the-evergreen-journal-rilke-is-my-friend\/","url_meta":{"origin":9579,"position":0},"title":"The Evergreen Journal #35   &#8211; Rilke is my Friend","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"September 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Evergreen Journal #35 Rilke is my Friend Letters to a Young Artist by Rainer Maria Rilke\u00a0 September 30, 2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 Published: NLS\u00a0 (DB 83337) Read by Dan Stephens and Max Decon (1 hr 55 minutes) \u00a0 \u00a0 Sometimes I am painfully aware that I cannot sit down with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;#Trusting God&quot;","block_context":{"text":"#Trusting God","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/category\/trusting-god\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rilke.webp?fit=321%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8752,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/five-demands-acrostic-poem\/","url_meta":{"origin":9579,"position":1},"title":"Poetry &#8211; Five Demands","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"April 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"If you were a big STAR, a SUPER STAR, what DEMANDS would you make for your dressing room? 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