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Live the Questions

A classic that comes back to me with some frequency - relevant always, particularly so now.

...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 tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to 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 your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903, from Letters to a Young Poet