![]() ![]() Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine-a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. ![]() ![]() The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text. A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD ![]()
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