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What question would you most like answered?
Posted on Jan 14th, 2009
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Janet
Janet
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 14, 2009:
This is so interesting, because I was going to say, "at this moment: What is the meaning of the Dance of the New Moon?" since it has been on my mind so strongly for some time now.
But I have come to feel like the answer to that question will not come from outside myself. I have to unearth it from my own body. And this leads me down the path of exploring the mystery of questions... How the best ones remain unanswered and therefore continue to open doors....How the way my initial response is to want, want , want the Answer...and yet, then what? Do I check it off my list of Big Questions and move on to the next? Or do I begin to actually live the answer?
I cannot help but bring in the Rainer Maria Rilke quote, from Letters to a Young Poet:
But I have come to feel like the answer to that question will not come from outside myself. I have to unearth it from my own body. And this leads me down the path of exploring the mystery of questions... How the best ones remain unanswered and therefore continue to open doors....How the way my initial response is to want, want , want the Answer...and yet, then what? Do I check it off my list of Big Questions and move on to the next? Or do I begin to actually live the answer?
I cannot help but bring in the Rainer Maria Rilke quote, from Letters to a Young Poet:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now 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”
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Very Zen, welcome to the garden.
oh now you’ve let me cry
flops down into a puddle
thanks for the pretty meditation larry
elisa need a hanky? that rilke always gets to me too:-)
I am reminded of a Zen poem:
I came from brilliancy
and return to
brilliancy
What is this?
hey jordan! good to see you - thanks for bringing a poem and another question:-)
I would say that it’s important to remember how good it felt to finally get an answer.
maze~ savor the answer…I like that:-)
That is a great quote that really speaks loudly. “Live the questions” - Amen to that. *hugs*
Thank you! “Live the questions… ”
Joyous Mary
Rach & Joyous Mary~ Living the questions with you!!!
That’s one of my fave quotes by Rilke! Live the question, the answer will come at the right time and it may not be the same answer at another time. I just love questions! Hugs, Janet!
I like that too. Live the question. Life’s pretty dull when it’s straight and narrow!
Peace to you. Sherrilene
I love this post Janet. One of my favorite Rilke quotes.
Mila, Sherri John-
It is indeed a great quote and maybe the question then, is how to do it with grace? Thanks for stopping by:-)
Ah, loving the questions. Reminds me of Fred Alan Wolf’s words in the original Bleep movie: The real trick is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
I love what you said about how the best [questions] remain unanswered and therefore continue to open doors….
Thanks Ruth~ yeah, I loved that Fred Alan Wolf fella:-)
Nice to be swimming in the mystery with you, my friend
How to live the question with grace? The question mark looks graceful to me - he, he!