Living everything........................

"...I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, liked closed rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue.  Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them.  It is a matter of living everything.  Live the questions right now.  Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, one distant day live right into the answer.  Perhaps indeed you carry within yourself the possibility of shaping and forming, as a particularly pure and blessed kind of life;  train yourself for it - but take what comes in complete trust, if only it comes from your will, from some inner need of yours, take it to yourself and do not hate anything."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, 7/16/1903, as excerpted from letter IV, Letters to a Young Poet