"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
I've been finding solace in this quote for thirty years. I've returned yet again.
It's only when I'm living slowly that I allow the process of living be a question that patiently awaits an answer.
There's been a shortage of answers and insights of late, so I remember this quote along with my project credo, "slow down/wake up," and keep on living my questions.
There's far more wisdom in a good question than an easy answer.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
I've been finding solace in this quote for thirty years. I've returned yet again.
It's only when I'm living slowly that I allow the process of living be a question that patiently awaits an answer.
There's been a shortage of answers and insights of late, so I remember this quote along with my project credo, "slow down/wake up," and keep on living my questions.
There's far more wisdom in a good question than an easy answer.
