Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
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Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke
We don’t expect the answers to our questions to come out of nothing. However that might be the only place a solution can come from. You start by not knowing—not knowing how or what or why or who—until that seems to be quite an acceptable place to spend time in. Then the strange thing is that if you reach out your hand, what you need might be there.
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