Live the Questions Now

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I heard a quote this morning while listening to a recent episode from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett. When I heard the quote I immediately paused the episode and went back to listen to the quote again and again. I felt seen.

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.

― Rainer Maria Rilke