Live the Questions

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 language.  Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you 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.

                                           Rainer Maria Rilke –As quoted in Questions are the answer, David Hayward

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question

there are so many questions

“why?” we ask

“why?” we lament

we desperately seek answers

we retreat to our formulas

seeking to resolve that which cannot be resolved

and then

in the quietness of our souls

often without notice

an answer comes

it may not be the answer we seek

or an answer we like

it may not even recognizable as an answer

for the answer

is mostly this

one thing

Sacred Presence

God with us

In the questions

that we might live our way

into

the

answer