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~Thought for the Week~

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.

                                 ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Comments

[Joel]

A very interesting take on a well known sentiment. I love the concept of embracing and accepting the questions and having the patience to wait for the answers...great quote!

Love you

[neva]

Honey: i liked this quote, too. kind of seems applicable to a number of "situations" in our lives at the moment, don't you agree? ah well...we may not find out the "reasons" for everything today, but there's no need to wait around to figure out why i lovelovelove you so much. i just do. tap tap, no erasies. ; ) xox

[jan]

Somehow it seems like dogs do all this without question.

[tanlucypez]

Sounds like a Unitarian!

[Doug]

I do like Rilke but how is that supposed to help?

I pace my cage in an endless circle.

[neva]

Jan: isn't that one of the things we love best about dogs? ; ) xox

TLP: Rilke a Unitarian? who knew? ; ) xox

Doug: i have no idea how your affection for Rilke helps. he's deep, that's for sure. that said, he changed his first name from René to Ranier, because it seemed more masculine, but kept the middle name Maria? ponder that while pacing your cage. ; ) xox

[al]

Ya know, Neva, for a guy who reads the last page of every book first, this is, like, very tough advice...

But, oh, alright...

[pia]

I was all prepared with a brilliantly stupid comment about how Rilke couldn't have been a Unitarian, but then I googled the years he lived

I am like Al in that.
It is very hard

I'm trying to force myself to get my files in order before doing anything else because it is very important. Very hard

My dentists said that I would learn patience and I had the patience to sit without squirming, but it just doesn't translate well into the rest of my life
Great great quote

Now I have to actually read about his life which really doesn't help me but...

[Miz BoheMia]

I HAVE WAITED ENOUGH!

I DON'T WANT TO WAIT ANYMORE DAMMIT!

WHY DOESN'T THIS RILKY MILKY RAINY GUY TRY LIVING IN SPAIN?

IS HE CRAZY????

AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

;-P

[G]

Perfect quote. I especially liked, "Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them."

Another reminder to be here now. XOX

[actonbell]

Que Sera...I agree, G, we should all live in the moment. Kurt Vonnegut said that we should realize it everytime we are happy, and I guess that's the same sentiment. Nice quote:)

[actonbell]

and rabbit, rabbit! Go for it.

[tanlucypez]

Rabbit rabbit, Puppy puppy.

[Monika]

The perfect quote for me rigth now. Thank you...it fits and Rilke, brilliant!

[Arple]

What a lovely Blog! I typically do not visit them...so this was a pleasant happenstance! I was trying to find a quote that someone once said to me....something about "a speck of sand in my eye, when there is a stone in yours" Have you or any of your friends heard of this one? I would love to get it right...as it often comes in handy in this day and age of not being "equal" to someone's expectations...

[Dan]

I've been living the questions since the day I was born. In fact, many have called me a living question. Even questionable. I never questioned them.

[Gale]

Lovely thoughts!