Tuesday December 9th 2014

tuesday-december-9th-2014 Patience

“Have patience with everything that
remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books
written in a foreign language.
Do not now look for the answers.
They cannot now be given to you
because you could not live them.
It is a question of experiencing everything.
At present you need to live the question.
Perhaps you will gradually,
without even noticing it,
find yourself experiencing the answer,
some distant day.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria RilkeRainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, is generally considered the German language’s greatest poet of the 20th century…Source

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