“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now 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, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Every time I read this quote I am reminded to live in the beauty and uncertainty of questions. I always want to sprint towards answers- often feeling myself becoming restless and worried- as though the only state that is safe lives in constancy in answers. I think this is true more so as an adult, and I want to remind myself to step out of that and into the desire to stay in the questions- to walk in these rooms, using the Rilke's metaphor- to explore, walk around and enjoy exactly where I am.
Every time I read this quote I am reminded to live in the beauty and uncertainty of questions. I always want to sprint towards answers- often feeling myself becoming restless and worried- as though the only state that is safe lives in constancy in answers. I think this is true more so as an adult, and I want to remind myself to step out of that and into the desire to stay in the questions- to walk in these rooms, using the Rilke's metaphor- to explore, walk around and enjoy exactly where I am.