There are so many ways to feel separate.  From each other, from the Earth, from "what's going on in politics," from the spirit.  It was Rudolf Steiner's key, early insight that the longed-for re-integration of human and world is already present in our every act of understanding.  In the instant of understanding itself, we are not separate from what we understand. This unity of self and meaning can be extended to any kind of meaning and any kind of meaning-maker. All sincere dialogue is metamorphosis.

"Can we be more in love with the Earth?" This is one of David Spangler's provocative questions.  And he personally answers YES. Rilke does too, and he wants to show us, very intimately, how.

Each week, we touch on the previous week’s meditation theme, just briefly, to help orient us.  There is a sense of continuity that can grow from remembering where we were, and continuing on from there. A silent aspect to each of us never forgets anything meaningful.  It stands behind the daily threshings and thrashings of our lives, and sifts the gleanings. By bringing our prior meditation to mind, we can remember ourselves as this careful onlooker. Then we’re ready.

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I had a GPS system that used to say, as its final command for a given trip, “Arrive at your destination!” The car would have stopped, so I was already there, but it still commanded me to arrive. What is it to stop striving and receive the accomplishment of one’s destination?

And why do we care about the dead?
Well, why care about the living?
We are stronger together: that’s one reason.

— Rilke

To be silent.  Whoever's more deeply silent… — Rilke

If you only had one prayer to say, and that prayer were “Thank You,” it would be enough for a lifetime. — Meister Eckhart