{"id":968,"date":"1997-10-02T21:03:00","date_gmt":"1997-10-03T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/?p=968"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:06:37","slug":"book-of-hours-rilke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/book-of-hours-rilke\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Book of Hours, Book II, Poem 12&#8221;, by Rainer Maria Rilke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2845\" src=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColorfulTree.jpg\" alt=\"ColorfulTree\" width=\"588\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColorfulTree.jpg 588w, https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColorfulTree-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No one lives his life.<br \/>\nDisguised since childhood,<br \/>\nhaphazardly assembled<br \/>\nfrom voices and fears and little pleasures,<br \/>\nwe come of age as masks.<br \/>\nOur true face never speaks.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere there must be storehouses<br \/>\nwhere all these lives are laid away<br \/>\nlike suits of armor or old carriages<br \/>\nor clothes hanging limply on the walls.<br \/>\nMaybe all the paths lead there,<br \/>\nto the repository of unlived things.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, null,<br \/>\nthough you and I struggle<br \/>\nagainst the deathly clutch of daily necessity,<br \/>\nI sense there is this mystery:<br \/>\nAll life is being lived.<\/p>\n<p>Who is living it, then?<\/p>\n<p>Is it the things themselves,<br \/>\nor something waiting inside them,<br \/>\nlike an unplayed melody in a flute?<br \/>\nIs it the winds blowing over the waters?<br \/>\nIs it the branches that signal to each other?<br \/>\nIs it flowers<br \/>\ninterweaving their fragrances,<br \/>\nor streets, as they wind through time?<br \/>\nIs it the animals, moving,<br \/>\nor the birds, that suddenly rise up?<\/p>\n<p>Who lives it, then?<\/p>\n<p>You, oh God? Is it you, God, who lives it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though you and I struggle<br \/>\nagainst the deathly clutch of daily necessity,<br \/>\nI sense there is this mystery:<br \/>\nAll life is being lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,3,61],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nonduality","tag-poems","tag-the-western-philosophical-tradition","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}