Living the Questions
Ranier Maria Rilke wrote:
“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 now 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 then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
During this time when our questions may far outnumber our answers, impatience with uncertainty can arise. Allowing ourselves to sit with unanswered, or unanswerable questions can be a resilience-building practice.
Gratefulness.org provides a Daily Question practice where you may find a question or two that draws your attention and sparks your curiosity.
Here are a few examples from their website:
What feelings do I have that are awaiting honest exploration and acceptance?
What changes when I live from a place of love rather than fear?
Where do I feel possibility right now?
For reflection:
What questions are you living with today?
How can you give yourself the permission, time, and energy you need to think, write, or feel into these questions?