I recently came upon these wise words by Rilke and have since been thinking about them:
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.
Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them.
It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question.
Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
And how true he was, You can only understand the answers when you fully understand the question itself and why was it asked, the reason it was in your heart.
You will find yourself pulling your hair in frustration, because you feel the answer is so close that you can almost grab it the very next second. You wait for that second to come, it slowly turns into long minutes and painful hours.
You spend sleepless nights wondering why is this happening to you, thinking that you were not the one meant to suffer, that you should be the one living the dream.
But that's not the plan life had, and one needs to understand that, ask more questions if one has to. Ask about what you want from life and from those around you.
Ask about whats been troubling you, what makes you happy and what doesn't.
Again you may not get the answers, maybe that's alright, maybe what is more important that we have asked ourselves the right questions, set ourselves on the right path, only then can we start walking on it.
And like we often see, when we stop worrying about the questions, when we stop looking for the destination and just live the journey, we find the answers.
And then you realize, like you do when the first ray of sunshine hits a blooming flower, life indeed is beautiful.
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for some reason, this is exactly what i needed to read today, ever seen tat toy, tightly wound from inside, that when let loose starts clapping frantically? making an obscene noise, the mini whirring of my tiny brain had made me that.. a projection in the future. needed to read the simple truth.. enjoy the moment. let the rest be. what is is! ask the questions, be troubled by the answers. tke the action.. but be simple with it.. time for it all to happen
for some reason this is exactly not what i wanted to read today. This is exactly the sort of philosophical gibberish i would attribute to someone who is just falling in love. All i know is that when a question presents itself and i cant reach the answer the last thing on my mind is waiting for it PATIENTLY. Good luck with all the patience in life.
that what i thought u would say...never did expect anything more...and i don't know where u detect love in such gibberish...infact rehne de..don't answre
oh my, someone doesn't want me to write.Knowing me , that's the only thing that spurs me to write again. Generally when ppl fall in love they have the habit of delving deep within.And since this was uncharacteristically you,I had no other words.
uncharacteristic? u forgot the talli conversations?
the only point of getting talli is forgetting wat u discuss then.
Nice post, but I am an impatient guy, and will remain one forever!
nice post..
Nice to see Tanay turning philosophical. Don't know whether he's falling in love and therefore doing some deep thinking, but it sure is good to see Tanay indulging in such thoughts.
And yes, I agree with the content of this blogpost. Keep it up!
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