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A place of peace, prayer and beauty in North Wales Away in the loveable west, On a pastoral forehead of Wales, I was under a roof here, I was at rest Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit poet St Beunos is a Jesuit retreat house offering the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius, silent individually guided retreats and various themed retreats. We also provide courses and training in spiritual accompaniment. For the full programme of retreats and courses, see www.beunos.com Contact: The Secretary, St Beuno’s, St Asaph, Denbighshire, N. Wales, LL17 0AS Tel: +44 (0)1745 583444 secretary@beunos.com
PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WISDOM OF OUR SORROWS Peter Wilcox T HE WELL-KNOWN AUSTRIAN lyric poet and noted spiritual writer Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a collection of ten reflective poems between 1912 and 1922 entitled Duino Elegies. These are intensely religious, mystical poems that weigh beauty and existential suffering. At one point in this poem sequence, he encourages the reader not to be a ‘waster of sorrows’. 1 And in his more popular work Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke encourages his young friend to use his sorrows in a positive way as a means to help him grow in holiness. 2 Is this not the challenge for all of us? It is not a gentle world. Everyone has sorrows in life of one kind or another. The important question is not whether we have sorrows or not, but what can we do with them so that we do not waste them? The reality is that what we do with our sorrows can have a tremendous impact on our growth as a person, both psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. In over thirty years as a psychotherapist, I have listened to people’s stories about their lives. Often, a part of the story involve sorrows of one kind or another. How people handle them has truly been inspiring and in some cases amazing to me. Listening to my clients over the years, I have often wondered why some people become overwhelmed by their sorrows and seem to buckle beneath them while others learn to integrate them into their lives in a way that leads to growth. For each of us, the real question and challenge is—how do we do this? How do we use our suffering and sorrows in life to be a positive, growthful force so that we do not end up wasting them? 1 Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, translated by J. B. Leishman and Stephen Spender (New York: Norton, 1963), 79. 2 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, translated by M. D. Herter Norton (New York: Norton, 1934), 63–67. The Way, 55/1 (January 2016), 79–88
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