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Just Playing Around: Why E-lit Matters

Illya Szilak | Posted 05.15.2013 | Books
Read More: E-Lit, Giorgio Agamben, Poesis, Digital, Jason Nelson, Martin Heidegger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poetry, Friedrich Kittler, Technology, Books News
Illya Szilak

In this blog post, I continue my discussion of Jason Nelson's works of interactive poetry, which he affectionately calls his "creatures," by considering two quotes, the first from contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the second from poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Two Words

Sonya Denyse | Posted 03.30.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Positive Thinking, Healthy Mind, Pollyanna, Letting Go of the Past, Possibility, Rainer Maria Rilke, Moving Forward, Isreal Houghton, Looking Back, Stress Management, Wisdom, Healthy Living News
Sonya Denyse

Savoring the sorrow of life could seem antithetical to moving forward. Yet, I found that embracing sorrow has strengthened my resolve.

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'Let This Darkness Be A Bell Tower'

Krista Tippett | Posted 01.05.2013 | Religion
Read More: On Being, Krista Tippett, Sonnet, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Religion News
Krista Tippett

"Quiet friend who has come so far, / feel how your breathing makes more space around you. / Let this darkness be a bell tower / and you the bell."

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Of Odes and Oms

Tamsin Smith | Posted 04.29.2012 | Arts
Read More: Yoga, W.H. Auden, Rainer Maria Rilke, Writing, Poetry, Craig Arnold, Mark Morford, Yoga Poetry, Arts News
Tamsin Smith

This Sunday -- day of rest for the restless - I'm signed up to take a yoga class for writers. I love the idea of unleashing my imagination while aligning my spine.

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Anthems, World Changers and Western Teleports: Chatting With Naughty By Nature, John Medeski and Emperor X

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.10.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Clyde Stubblefield, Bob Moses, The Word, Naughty by Nature, Rainer Maria Rilke, DJ Kay Gee, Miles Davis, Walter Benjamin, Billy Preston, Groove Holmes, Joe, Baruch Spinoza, Billy Martin, James Brown, Battlestar Galactica, Queen Latifah, John Medeski, Jorge Luis Borges, Medeski Martin & Wood, Paul McCartney, Robert Randolph, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Red Hot Organization, Jimmy McGriff, Joel Sternfeld, Jimmy Smith, Chris Wood, New Style, Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood, American Idol, Larry Young, Jimi Hendrix, North Mississippi Allstars, John Scofield, Emperor X, Muzombo, Treach, Rakalam, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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A Reflection On Identity And Changing Religious Beliefs

Brandon G. Withrow | Posted 06.07.2011 | Religion
Read More: Theology, Personal Identity, St. Augustine, Self-Reflection, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spiritual Journey, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Journey, Christian Fundamentalism, Religion and Family, Religion News
Brandon G. Withrow

Time and distance may make it hard for me to remember why I believed what I did once. Why did my early ideas make sense then but now seem so foreign?

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What is your Advice to Young Filmmakers?: ForYourArt asks Sundance's New Frontiers Directors

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Interview Project, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier, Filmmakers, Takeshisa Mashimo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Kaiser, Liam Birtles, Letters-to-a-Young-Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Miwa Matreyek, Arts News
Bettina Korek

ForYourArt was inspired by Hans Ulrich Obrist's ongoing Interview Project -- where as an homage to Rainer Maria Rilke's book Letters to a Young Poet, ...

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Beyond Sorrow: The Resilience Of The Human Spirit

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Christina Green, Obama-Arizona-Memorial-Speech, Tucson Shooting, Martin Luther King Jr., President Obama, Buddha, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter Reed, Resilliency, Inspiration, Healthy Living News
Sharon Salzberg

Commonly we find resiliency through connection: to nature, to community, to inner strengths, to a sense of life bigger than the circumstances we see in front of us.

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One Thousand and One Nights

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Elderly, Aladdin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems, Poetry, Impact News
Tamsin Smith

Enchanted lamps can be tricky. One never really knows what will be released, either from within the lantern or from within oneself. Alas, I can't dazz...

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OTHER AS ANIMAL: a meditation

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Jean Pagliuso, Ganese Gallery, Henry Beston, Diane Andrew Hall, John Clare, Ted Hughes, Amy Ross, Catherine Howe, Other as Animal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jane Rosen, Daisy Youngblood, Simen Johan, April Gornik, Carol Muske-Dukes, Ross Bleckner, Sally Gall, D.H. Lawrence, Eric Fischl, Healthy Living News
Carol Muske-Dukes

The catalogue for the haunting "Other as Animal" show at Danese Gallery in New York City (which runs from June 4 through August 6th ) -- offers a quot...

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Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: New York Review of Books, Literature, Damion Searls, Radio Conversation, Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Brown University, Proust, Green, Nyrb, Transcendentalists, Christopher Lydon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Books News
Christopher Lydon

Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a "baggy monster." Henry David Thoreau'...

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The "M" Word: Making the Most of Mentoring to Achieve (and Exceed) Your Goals

Shannon Cutts | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: National Mentoring Month, Mentors, Service, Mentees, Rainer Maria Rilke, Healthy Living News
Shannon Cutts

A mentoring relationship is fundamentally driven by the mentee's desire to maximize their full potential in some area of life, whether it be personal, career, or some combination thereof.

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