Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.
Interpretation
This quote encourages embracing uncertainty and being patient with unresolved feelings, suggesting that understanding will come with time.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote beautifully emphasizes the importance of patience and acceptance in the face of life's unresolved questions. It encourages individuals to not rush for answers or solutions, but instead to cherish the questions themselves, as this process of living with uncertainty may lead to personal growth and eventual insights. By suggesting that experiencing life as a question can yield answers naturally, Rilke advocates for a mindful and reflective approach to the complexities of our emotions and experiences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal growth.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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