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 now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
-Rilke
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Thank you Jon. The beauty and wisdom of this made me cry (good tears).
ReplyDelete"They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them."
ReplyDeleteSo profound... Thanks!
That is intense. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAmen
ReplyDeleteneed to write that one down. :) Thanks
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. This speaks to my soul.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I'm concerned, Rilke can do no wrong. NinnyBeth has a collection of his poems that she sometimes reads aloud to me in our retrotastic kitchen.
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