Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...do not 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, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
My therapist gave me this wonderful quote yesterday in response to something I said. She read it to me and I had to go on-line to find it today. I like the idea of living the questions rather than seeking the answers. It sort of implies that you are ever in prayer- praying without ceasing. But it also implies that living the questions is the point. Without a questioning mind we merely follow blindly without ever daring to think outside the box. I like that idea.


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