Quote wall: Rainer Maria Rilke

In my journal I jot down a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from.

Here's one:

You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.

—from Letters to a Young Poet

It's a real trip to be the age I am now and to realize that You are so young, all still lies ahead of you feels like it doesn't apply to me, and yet still does. And to feel still unresolved in my heart about so many things, with so many questions jostling for attention.

I'll just keep living the questions, and do my best to love them, too.