Rainer Maria Rilke on Solitude, Slowing Down, and Making Space - Sadler's Lectures

15/11/2025 21 min
Rainer Maria Rilke on Solitude, Slowing Down, and Making Space - Sadler's Lectures

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This is a podcast of a guest sermon, given by invitation to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Catskills.

A guest sermon invited by the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Catskills, Aug 9, 2015. In it, I discuss Rainer Maria Rilke's conception of "solitude" (Einsamkeit), and its relevance to our contemporary lives. Explaining how the two dimensions of slowing down temporally and making space spatially figure into the development of solitude as Rilke describes it, I suggest that in our own era, time has become the more scarce resource.

You can read a transcript of the sermon here: https://www.academia.edu/14942470/Solitude_Slowing_Down_and_Clearing_Space

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