Questions

I would like to beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions them selves as if they were locked rooms or books 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.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I needed to come across this little piece of wisdom today.  My Zen practice has been deepening as of late and as a result, is stirring up more questions than answers about the way I currently live my life.

My impulse is to want to resolve all these questions right away.  I feel uncomfortable with so many seemingly unresolved things lying about. It helps to be reminded that I can just be with those questions and the uncomfortable feelings that are associated with them. Questions don’t have to be answered right away (if at all).  For the moment, questions can be just questions.