I
experience a problem of conscience every time I pass by a beggar without giving
him or her something. I’ve shared this personal phenomenon with you, here in my
blog, before.
by Charlie Leck
by Charlie Leck
Let me share my
Rilke reading* for today. It is very brief. It is called Beggars…
“The shapeless
heaps turn out to be beggars.
They reveal themselves as you pass by.
They are selling the nothing
their hands hold out.”
They reveal themselves as you pass by.
They are selling the nothing
their hands hold out.”
*from Rilke’s New Poems
as published in A Year with Rilke
translated and edited by Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows
as published in A Year with Rilke
translated and edited by Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows
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