For the 6th Day of Christmas I commented briefly on the myriad questions Motherless Daughters want answers to, and how frustrating it is when those answers just don't come.
While perusing an old issue of O, The Oprah Magazine (April 2001 Vol.2 #4) I came across a bit of interesting advice. It's shared below:
An Open Question
It's not the answers that show us the way, says Czech poet Ranier Maria Rilke, but the questions.
While perusing an old issue of O, The Oprah Magazine (April 2001 Vol.2 #4) I came across a bit of interesting advice. It's shared below:
It's not the answers that show us the way, says Czech poet Ranier Maria Rilke, but the questions.
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
-From Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Stephen Mitchell
1 comment:
good advise. Like I told everyone. I was looking forward to "feeling" this holiday season. Even if that feeling meant sadness, and tears, and happy times, and guilt. Anything I felt this season I embraced.
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