I Love My Friends

[qos]

dancingchaplain posted one of my all-time favorite quotes this evening. I've italicized the phrase which has always stuck with me -- but the rest enriches it.


"I beg you... to 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 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..."
Rainer Maria Rilke, in Letters to A Young Poet


"Live your way into the answer."
This has definitely been my experience.

Comments

[iswari.livejournal.com]

That's one of my favorites, as well! =)

[professor-mom.livejournal.com]

I've always loved Rilke. Thanks for sharing this.