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Emerging into Yourself - Musings on Rilke's Call to Live into the Questions↓
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Dear Friend, Hey there! Did you know that I have a blog? I have just a few pieces up, but there is more coming soon! Recently, I posted an exploration prompted by this quote by the poet and writer Rainer Maria 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 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.” Here's a small snippet of the post: While I was living the question, I did not love it, as Rilke urges. I didn’t love the question because I was afraid of it and even more so, afraid of the answer. Even though I could feel myself inhabiting the question every time I set out to do the work of massage and all of its related activities, I denied it. Deep down, I knew that if I turned to face the question with love and acceptance, I wouldn’t get the answer I wanted and I was terrified of that. My fear of the question and its subsequent answer wasn’t enough to silence the rumbling truth. Living the question was inevitable. I was living the question, but it was also living me. Once I was forced through pain (if only I’d heeded the whisper!) to finally become fully present with my question, more questions emerged…
What do you think of Rilke's quote? How does it land in your body? Let me know by responding to this email! All my best, Nova
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