January 2nd, 2026 RM Rilke

"Go to the Limits 

of Your Longing” 

(Book of Hours I, 59) 
by Rainer Maria Rilke

3rd Rule of Love
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Juan Francisco Guzmán (Guatemalan, 1954–), Espíritu sin Medida (Spirit Without Measure), 2012. Oil on canvas, 103 × 102 cm. © missio Aachen.

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God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.



3rd Rule of Love
By Shams of Tabriz


You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for him: in the heart of a true lover.