"....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
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Listen...


When life stands still
Words from your mouth bound to spill
Listen to your soul
Deep within
Your body that it fills

When all seems quiet
Not a soul in sight
Listen to the ocean 
Hidden wisdom
From a shell you’ll hear if you might