The Focus of the Storm

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June 25, 2018

a project of ServiceSpace

I have 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 Focus of the Storm

Joanna Macy reflects on Rilke's Book of Hours, which has served as spiritual nourishment for almost fifty years of soul-searching and activism. "Its images lent some pattern, even meaning, to a life I thought had failed in its spiritual vocation... Now those same lines...shed new light on the patchwork my life had become -- marriage, motherhood, abandoned government career, assortment of jobs, studies in art and language. Perhaps, after all, some unknowable center held me in orbit." { read more }

Be The Change

Macy says, "I could almost feel again the sense of belonging and purpose that I thought I had forfeited." What brings you back to the sense of belonging to something larger, and can you share what helps you with someone else?

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