Saturday, April 10, 2010

"All that is unsolved in your heart"--Rilke

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the question themselves...Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
I am not sure that I agree with the quote in its entirety, but I do think that it has truth to it (i.e. we must learn to be healthy inquirers and remember that we are not inquiring for inquiry's sake--rather we are inquiring so as to live joyfully and consistently with the truth. The point is to live humbly under the Lord, and part of a humble life is to realize that we are all learners before the infinite wisdom of God. We will never know all that there is to know and it would actually hurt us if we knew something before we were ready to live it out in humility before God. So here is the exhortation: do not be greedy for answers; live in paradoxes, questions, and tensions; live humbly, fearfully before the Lord your God as a student; and live out what you learn from both questions and answers.)

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