Rainer Maria Rilke - Iyengar Level II & I, Sept 17

I loved the way Rilke described how we see/don’t see/use air to see in this fragment from his Early Journals. I bet my artist friends recognize the correlation between air and “seeing” form.

I am learning to see something new. In addition to sky and land, a third thing has equal significance: the air.

Things usually appear to me as finite and limited in comparison with the great body of Earth. But here there are many things that seem like Islands —alone, bright, caressed on all sides by ever-moving air that makes their forms stand out so clearly.