Wednesday
19Nov2008
So, so uncertain.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 9:38PM 
Photo by my amazing, talented husband.
The clarity that I had hoped for has not yet come. I have been a bit beside myself today. Weeping and sleeping mostly. Send grace.
...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, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet
Reader Comments (1)
that is some fabulous and profound advice from mr. rilke.
i have learned that when i decide i want to have more patience or grace or just the ability to not completely loose my shit, i am then put into more situations that requires the attribute i am trying to be stronger in. which i then of course completely screw up, and usually it is not until after the fact i realize it. everyday we learn. and everyday is a new day to practice and start over.