Asking questions

Modern biology has shown that each living creature is locked within his specific environment and is unable to break out of it. For all that man may occupy an exceptional position, for all that he may be unusually receptive to the world, and that the world itself may be his environment – still, who can say that beyond this world a super-world does not exist?*
Viktor Frankl

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart,
and try to love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms
or books written in a very foreign language.

Do not 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.**

Rainer Maria Rilke

What are your questions?
The ones that you have no answer for as yet?
Do you try to ignore them?
Or are you walking into them?
Who are you speaking with?
What are you reading?
What are you learning?
What are you starting?
What are you finishing, or ending?
What are you gathering up along the way?
How are you more selfless?
More grateful?
Wiser?
Do you want the questions to end?
Or life to continue?

*Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul;
**The Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer: Day 11.

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