"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
Learning to love questions instead of just seeking contantly for answers is something we can all grow at. One way to learn to live with the questions is to pick a question that is currently troubling you or one that has no clear answer. Then find some time and space to sit quietly. Begin by focusing on your breath. After a few calming breaths begin to say the same question to yourself with each breath in. With each breath out simply wait. Do this at least 10 times, if not many more. On the breath out do not expect an "answer" to the question (although some people do find an answer here), rather wait.....for prehaps a physical response (tension?), awareness, feeling, or calmness about the question. Be open and curious to see what happens. Wait....wait.
Ok, now I know you are about to go on and click on another post or website. Stop for just 3 mintues and try this. See if it might not help you to live the question now. It may help you some distant day to live along into the answer.
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