"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. LIVE the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, love along some distant day into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke
I have loved that quotation for many years. When I find myself getting impatient for answers and conclusions and solutions and results, sometimes I am able to remember that it might not yet be time for the answers, etc. Hopefully I might be loving along some distant day into the answer. I might not be ready for the answer. I might not be able to 'stand the truth' as Jack Nicholson said in "A Few Good Men".....
What questions are you asked to live now?
Monday, March 16, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
