Sunday, February 19, 2012

As synchronicity would have it, not only was this Rilke quote the reading for February 18, the translation below was, also, at the end of the chapter of one of the books I am reading The Web of Life by Richard
Louv

I tell you I have a long way to go before I am where one begins . . . You are so young, so before all beginnings, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patience toward all that is unresolved 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 live them.  And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing, along some distance day into the answer.

Resolve to be always beginning- to be a beginner.

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