One of my favorite quotes is one by Rainer Marie Rilke:
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 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 find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Marie Rilke
For so long in my life, I have tried to live so many questions, but for so long it always seemed that I often found only more questions that could not be answered. I have sat so many nights searching through the pages of my life, sorting through the moments I have lived trying to decipher an understanding of my own life, my mortality, and the fate that unseen leads us. Knowing that there is a reason why things happen, and knowing maybe in the end all we can do is to put our faith into God and know that each day I am traveling down a road that although cannot be seen ahead I am where I was meant to be at this time in my life.
Then one day recently it was as though I woke to find a clarity that I have never felt before in my life. As though I was able to look back and to see where I have been, to be able to let go of the tears and smiles found in the moments that have passed and at the same moment find hope knowing that with each new day I am a little closer to those answers I have lived the questions to for so long now. Life does go on each day rather we want to let it or not, and the past becomes just that, and we are left with a future that is our own, all we must do is to trust in God and know that one day we all find our dreams, our wishes and our hopes. It is about the journey and the trials that we go through, that makes it so much sweeter when we find them.
There are no short cuts on this journey, no scenic routes, or detours only life. A life that we must all find our own answers to, as we live the questions we find, and look for answers ones that only come with time.
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 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 find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Marie Rilke
For so long in my life, I have tried to live so many questions, but for so long it always seemed that I often found only more questions that could not be answered. I have sat so many nights searching through the pages of my life, sorting through the moments I have lived trying to decipher an understanding of my own life, my mortality, and the fate that unseen leads us. Knowing that there is a reason why things happen, and knowing maybe in the end all we can do is to put our faith into God and know that each day I am traveling down a road that although cannot be seen ahead I am where I was meant to be at this time in my life.
Then one day recently it was as though I woke to find a clarity that I have never felt before in my life. As though I was able to look back and to see where I have been, to be able to let go of the tears and smiles found in the moments that have passed and at the same moment find hope knowing that with each new day I am a little closer to those answers I have lived the questions to for so long now. Life does go on each day rather we want to let it or not, and the past becomes just that, and we are left with a future that is our own, all we must do is to trust in God and know that one day we all find our dreams, our wishes and our hopes. It is about the journey and the trials that we go through, that makes it so much sweeter when we find them.
There are no short cuts on this journey, no scenic routes, or detours only life. A life that we must all find our own answers to, as we live the questions we find, and look for answers ones that only come with time.
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