"You are so young, you stand before beginnings. I would like to beg of you dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything . . . You need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer some distant day."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
This quote is from Rilke's classic book, Letters to a young poet, and has always impacted me deeply. I don't know why it is that we think we have to have it all together, why we must always have the answers immediately. I often get frustrated with myself for not having the answers. I find it interesting too that the things in my life that I don't know the answers to are often the things people question me about the most. Perhaps the universe finds this amusing? Perhaps I'm supposed to be learning something. If I responded differently, would the same question continue to be asked of me or would the universe see that I had accepted this question instead of fighting it and assign me a new lesson? It's worth a try.
