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* Live in the Question

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
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 now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Rainer Maria Wilke

dandelion life cycle
Image by Steve Gadomski

Embrace exactly where we are today

Not wishing into an imagined future

or seeking answers we are not ready to live by

Accept the confusion of not knowing

Love and live each moment for what it is

Knowing everything has its time

Namaste

Val T Boyko
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23 responses to “* Live in the Question”

  1. mk Avatar
    mk

    What an inspiring AND helpful post! Thanks!

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Thanks MK!

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  2. Jet Eliot Avatar
    Jet Eliot

    I had never thought of loving and living the questions that we ask ourselves…wonderful, thoughtful, peaceful post, Val. Thank you.

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Thank you so much Jet. Happy you enjoyed it!

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  3. Jill Weatherholt Avatar
    Jill Weatherholt

    “Accept not knowing”…that’s huge! Thanks, Val!

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      I know it too Jill! Thank for stopping by and taking a moment to pause. xo

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  4. socialbridge Avatar
    socialbridge

    What a magnificent quote, Val.

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Thank you Jean. The words have been with me for a while and I like to revisit them … Often!

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  5. Carol Ferenc Avatar
    Carol Ferenc

    “Accept the confusion of not knowing” . . . I love that. A difficult lesson but so vital to contentment.

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  6. Tiny Avatar
    Tiny

    Great advice, Val! Something to practice every day…it’s not that easy to live the questions.

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Agreed Tiny. It’s a practice 🙂

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  7. Paul Handover Avatar
    Paul Handover

    I heard something today that I want to share, “Listen with the intent to understand, rather than with the intent to respond.” Your post today, Val, seemed in the same vein.

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      I agree. Being right there with what is, is powerful Paul!

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  8. Healing Grief Avatar
    Healing Grief

    In a world that needs to know everything, living in and with our questions is challenging, and yet it’s the only place we can be! Great reminder Val. 😉

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Agreed Karen. Its a wake up call when we realize that, not only don’t we know the answers, but we are are probably not ready for them. Letting things unfold and being with what is takes courage along with bags of patience. xo

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        Healing Grief

        It has also been learning to trust. Patience and allowing those answers to unfold rather than chasing them, has given me the confidence to know they will always arrive in perfect timing. So true.

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  9. nrhatch Avatar
    nrhatch

    Here’s to leaping in the dark!

    “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” ~ Agnes De Mille

    “I have a perverse attraction to not knowing what’s going to happen next.” ~ Holly Morris

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Great quotes Nancy! Thanks as always for adding a new perspective 🙂

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  10. misifusa Avatar
    misifusa

    Namaste to you too dear Val! ♥

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      I feel your light! Namaste Yvonne.

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  11. noellevignola Avatar
    noellevignola

    One of my favorite Rilke pieces. I love how simply living in this now, inevitably will bring to us the answers we are able to really live in.

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  12. Eliza Waters Avatar
    Eliza Waters

    What a beautiful quote, Val. Thanks so much for sharing, I love it. ❤

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    1. Val Boyko Avatar
      Val Boyko

      Thank you for kind words Eliza 🙂

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