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Fenland Musings - March 2023: Longing, Lights, and Limits

Fenland Musings - March 2023: Longing, Lights, and Limits

Welcome to the March edition of Fenland Musings

Mar 30, 2023
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“Go to the limits of your longing”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

Lowestoft, Suffolk

What does longing have in common with lights and limits?

And what do they have to do with my deepening journey into the inner and outer wildernesses of my life?

David Whyte wrote a beautiful essay on longing, in it he says:

Longing is the transfiguration of aloneness, the defenceless in…

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