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 | Ah, not to be cut off By Rainer Maria Rilke English version by Stephen Mitchell
Ah, not to be cut off,
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| ============ Thought for the Day: Doing good for others ============ | Here's your Daily Music selection --  Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach Bhakti Bazaar: Music for Yoga & Other Joys Volume 2 |
Hi Omss -
Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
When I sit at my computer in the morning and decide which poem to select for the day, I often feel like a musician, trying to find just the right tone and rhythm. It's a Monday, the beginning of the work week for most people on this list, not the right time for a long poem or a long-winded commentary. Also many people really responded to Friday's selection, and I don't want to mentally crowd it out with today's selection. So I thought we should go with something short, without a lot of my own commentary. Something that gently shifts perception and soothes the heart, but without hooking into the analytical mind.
That's the tone I like to renew my connection with the world each week.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky...
A peek into the musical art of poem selection.
...hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.
Have a beautiful day!
Ivan
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