". . . I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to 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 now 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 then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 34-5
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i really like that. i do find myself full of questions and frequently wanting immediate answers. i forget that we will find most of them out in the right time—only when we can understand the answers. adonai is so amazing.
crazy....you, Rilke, me, Alice Walker. what is going on?
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