I happened upon this quote for the first time sometime last year and thought of it today for some reason…
…I would like to beg you dear Sir, 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.
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
in Letters to a Young Poet
Cadiz, Spain – March 2008
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Oh. I love it. I remember reading this in a book called the Velveteen Woman a few years ago. I kept that quote on a page in my journal of quotes/verses that I would flip to when the struggles seemed to overwhelm me. Thanks for the reminder. It is so sweet to look back at trying times and realize that they don’t last forever, He did carry me through. What a blessing!
That quote has been my favorite since I discovered it in high school….it’s posted right above my computer on my inspiration board!
Not heard this one before, but by golly it makes sense!