Sunday, September 30, 2007

Rainer Maria Rilke:

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 now be given to you because you could not live them.

And the point is to live everything.

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.