#livethequestions

[theloulouge]

Life Lens - Day 01

Life is a journey, not a destination, and it’s okay to not have it all figured out yet. From a young age, society often expects us to have dreams and ambitions, a clear path that we’re eager to pursue. But what if you’re like me, someone who doesn’t have a specific dream or ambition? I’ve never been one to have a clear-cut goal or a burning passion for a particular career path. But that doesn’t…

[toilynn]

Everything Mary Oliver pens is an invitation to live in curiosity. Just that word, "curiosity" invites kindness. ⁣ She calls us back over and over again. To notice. To pay attention. To gratitude. Beginner's Mind. Child Mind. This is how we stay in awe. In this place of living from the beginning, like a child, life is wonder-full. ⁣ - What are you planning to explore this weekend? - Where will you be adventuring? - What curiosity calls for your attention? ⁣ Delighted to be wandering and wondering with you, ⁣ Toi Lynn 💛 ⁣ #curiosity #beginnersmind #childmind #maryoliver #lifeadventure #livethequestions #becurious #gratitude #begrateful #keepanopenmind #begrateful #beastonished #lifeisbeautiful #natureheals #naturetherapy #poetrytherapy #natureismychurch #selfhealing #bekindalways (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDmNSjsJ0y1/?igshid=i9hs819seuig

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[artandlivingenergy]

“The outer mind of the human being is, in a sense, a crystallization of the inner mind possessed by every living thing, just as the physical body that we can see and touch is a crystallization of our quantitative energetic entity. The material and the nonmaterial functions differ in vibratory frequency, not in substance. This is why the whole of a life, even to the length of the bones and the degree of fine-motor coordination, is literally sculpted by internal energy. The “sculptor” is the energy’s consciousness: the integral awareness from the gene to the spirit,” Pierrakos. Now they know that #DNAchanges, so the energy goes from spirit and nonmatter back to inform the genetic code. #abstracttravelpainting from #Tanglewoodpark in #winstonsalem #northcarolina , #livethequestions , that is #rilke. #science says that what we do changes our #brains. #erickandel wrote about this and he has a #nobelprizeinmedicine: #looking at #abstractart #changesthebrain , ##abstractartiststhinklikescientists #makingabstractart #changesthebrainmore , #artandlivingenergy. Artists find #symbols, and so can everyone, just like in #dreams, and in #handwriting , everyone is an #energymap. #lifeisenergy https://www.instagram.com/p/BuBkeekhYS5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=178htww1nqara

[eleanordubinsky]

Unsafe Thinking, a new book by @jonahwsachs about how to be creative and bold when you need it most. To say I’m digging it is an understatement. I had the pleasure of going deep with some very smart and creative friends today and this quote encapsulates my take-home. #fridaynight #philosophy #creativity #risk #experiment #heart #mind #innervoice #wisdom #decisions #livethequestions #unsafethinking #humannature #jonahsachs #breakthrough #lifequotes #lifetools #meditation #keepitmoving #alloftheabove

[meaningbusiness]

Day 7. Rereading Maugham. #7dayblackandwhitephotochallenge #blackandwhite #shadesofgrey #livethequestions #razorsedge #reading #glasses #aging #books #lastday

[omstacks]

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t 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, Letters to a Young Poet #patience #unresolved #heart #love #questions #search #answers #now #liveeverything #livethequestions #someday #future #liveyourway #answer #RainerMariaRilke #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #askmorequestions #questionsandanswers #questionlife #explore #dream #discover #meditate #yoga #om #createyourbalance #getyourOMon #OMstacks #OMstack (at Long Beach, California)

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[lookwhathappens]

[petedryden-blog]

#alettertomyself #painting #writing #art #createexplore #travelingsoul #acrylic #livethequestions #2016

[ninaoneil]

One of my favorite quotes. "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. Don't 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." #livethequestions #wonder

[philosophyofmugs]

Living the Questions Now...

So, there's this guy and I am just crazy about him! His name is René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, I know...what a guy. Most people, however, know him as Rainer Maria Rilke and he is a famous German poet. A few years ago I was given his book, Letters to a Young Poet, in a serendipitous moment between myself and a professor. In the book Rilke shares a series of letters he wrote to a young man who was an aspiring writer. Not only is this book amazingly written but it is also filled to the brim with tons and tons of priceless nuggets of wisdom. It is this very book that inspires my ramblings here today.

The book even made an appearance in Sister Act II: Back in the Habit, when Whoopi Goldberg's character gives the book to a young, brooding Lauryn Hill!

In Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, he says to the young man he's writing to, 

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't 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. 

Rilke guides this young man to consider allowing all of the unresolved questions in his life to simply exist just as they are. He challenges the reader to be brave enough not to know or seek the answers to life's big questions and he encourages the reader to have faith. 

There are so many question marks in life. So many things that hang, suspended in the air, waiting to be answered. There are moments of confusion, moments of uncertainty, moments of anxiety. These moments can take the form of a serious shopping decision like, "should I buy this beautiful yet totally useless dress?" major meal quandaries like, "should I get the pastrami on rye or the chicken salad?" (I usually go with pastrami) or, and probably more likely, questions of real import that have a significant bearing on your life, like "should I take the job that requires me to move away from my friends and family or should I stay home where things are safe and comfortable?" 

There are currently a myriad of unanswered questions in my life. Questions about the path I've chosen, questions about my potential move-in date for my new apartment, questions about my family and friends, so many questions. Yet, the way I look at it, I have two options. I can choose to freak out about the fact that I don't know the answers to these questions and have no way of ascertaining the answers to these questions any time in the near future, or I can embrace the uncertainties of life. I can take those unanswered questions and give them a nice big bear hug, invite them in for tea, and sit with them until the questions decide to morph into their own answers. 

In some ways it is as if the questions in life are like butterflies. A young caterpillar wraps itself up in its cocoon and waits patiently for the day when it gets to become a butterfly. It does not know when its metamorphosis will be complete but it waits patiently for that day to come. Conversely, as the observer, if we poke and prod the caterpillar in its cocoon, then we will damage and perhaps even kill the butterfly. So it is with our questions as well. We must not poke, prod, overthink, scrutinize, or judge our life questions. Instead we must let the metamorphosis complete itself. Allow the caterpillar that is "Should I move across the country or not?" turn into the beautiful "yes" or "no" butterfly that it was meant to be. 

So as we all move through the adventure of life, remember to love the questions and to live them. I say these things not to preach or teach, but more as a reminder to myself that questions are just a step in the process towards another beautiful part of life. 

The point, after all, "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."

LIVE THE QUESTIONS NOW! I DARE YOU! :)  

Amy

[anaggieabroad-blog]

…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t 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, 1903 in "Letters to a Young Poet"