"Live the Questions"

I would like to beg you, dear sir,

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 would not be able to live them.

And the point is,

to live everything.

Live the questions now.

Perhaps then, some day in

the far future,

you will gradually,

without even noticing it,

live your way into the answer.

by RAINER MARIA RILKE