Have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart
and to 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.
8 comments:
Powerful words. Very cool.
And I totally read in the bathtub. That's the only place I get any reading done at all. So if yours is TMI, then so is mine! :)
Do you think sometimes, "I wish I had written that?"
Definitely wish I had written this quote.
BTW, our Auntie Myrtle refers to reading in the bathtub as baptizing the book, since her experience is that most people fall asleep and drop the book.
living the questions ... a model for all of us.
I don't know how any of you people read in the tub. It makes my fingers feel too dry to even think of it.
But Erin, what beautiful, comforting, bittersweet words! Thanks for sharing this poem.
That's a fabulous quote.
Beautiful. Remember our bathboards?
Oh wow. I really love that! It's so... powerful and really applies to so many things. Love it!!
... and I too read in the bathtub pretty much every time I'm in there. :)
My bathboard had strawberries on it: :)
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