Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A Good Point

“I would like to beg you… as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to 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, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; … but take whatever comes, with great trust… and don’t hate anything.” (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)

2 comments:

  1. I agree completely and I think it kind of drives my husband nuts - hee hee! Good post!

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  2. Jen, I LOVE that quote, I've heard it before and felt like it really spoke to me. How funny! He's a great author, Jenna has shared other stuff of his with me before. Maybe I can borrow a book or two from her to let you read.l

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