Kathryn Oliver | I Call It Meaning @festivalonearth | Uploaded May 2019 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
"I Call It Meaning" is a short film weaving together poetry (Rainer Maria Rilke), ancient wisdom (Tao Te Ching) and music (listed in the credits) with filmed images from my home garden and the natural wild surroundings of beautiful midcoast Maine.
There is something formless yet complete
That existed before heaven and earth.
How still. How empty.
Dependent on nothing, unchanging.
All pervading. Unfailing.
One may think of it as the
Mother of all things under Heaven.
I do not know its name
But I call it Meaning
--Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
Earth, isn’t this what you want? To arise in us, invisible?
Is it not your dream, to enter us so wholly
there’s nothing left outside us to see?
What, if not transformation,
is your deepest purpose? Earth, my love,
I want it too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over – even ONE flower
is More than enough.
Before I was named
I belonged to you. I see no other law
but yours and know I can trust
the death you will bring.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future
grows any smaller … Superabundant being
wells up in my heart.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, From the Ninth Duino Elegy
Narration:
Ralph Hassenpflug ralphhassenpflug.com
Bea Gonzalez sophiacycles.com
For more info: Kathrynoliver.com
"I Call It Meaning" is a short film weaving together poetry (Rainer Maria Rilke), ancient wisdom (Tao Te Ching) and music (listed in the credits) with filmed images from my home garden and the natural wild surroundings of beautiful midcoast Maine.
There is something formless yet complete
That existed before heaven and earth.
How still. How empty.
Dependent on nothing, unchanging.
All pervading. Unfailing.
One may think of it as the
Mother of all things under Heaven.
I do not know its name
But I call it Meaning
--Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
Earth, isn’t this what you want? To arise in us, invisible?
Is it not your dream, to enter us so wholly
there’s nothing left outside us to see?
What, if not transformation,
is your deepest purpose? Earth, my love,
I want it too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over – even ONE flower
is More than enough.
Before I was named
I belonged to you. I see no other law
but yours and know I can trust
the death you will bring.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future
grows any smaller … Superabundant being
wells up in my heart.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, From the Ninth Duino Elegy
Narration:
Ralph Hassenpflug ralphhassenpflug.com
Bea Gonzalez sophiacycles.com
For more info: Kathrynoliver.com
