I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved

in your heart and 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

"from letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke, translated by stephen mitchell, random house, 1984"

source: quotablecards, nyc; posted 25 Jan 07 to www.frankmclean.com