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Rilke

Guest — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:33:29 -0400

My favorite Rilke quote. Might be my favorite quote period. Love that you read it every day.

Love. that card. Love the

Guest — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:57:14 -0400

Love. that card. Love the questions. Love that you still have that little red heart. love.

What a beautiful sentiment.

Guest — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:22:11 -0400

What a beautiful sentiment. I am going to read more... CM

I get it, too.

Wanda Woodard — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:47:15 -0400

Wow. I hadn't quite thought about what all this FWW blogging is about, but I think your blog just answered one of the questions I've been living. Why we do this. We're all here exploring our questions of why it happened, how it happened, how to move beyond and how to be happy with what we are in at the moment. Thank you for this.

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Elaina Goodman — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:08 -0400

In the corner of my living room, two feet from where I sleep, is the closest thing I have to an alter. My sacred space.

There's a funky mirror my friend made from an old four-pane window. Pictures of my kids. A little card with a cartoon cat that says "See the Humor." Pencil sketch of a head with a tree growing from the hair. The red ceramic heart that came attached to my red ceramic LOVE mug. Vase full of peacock feathers my girls found camping. A framed poem my mom gave me about free spirits. And a card I bought for myself.

It's a Rilke quote, the card. If haven't read Ranier Maria Rilke, hit your local library. Click on Amazon. Go to Powells.com, whatever.

I read the card everyday:

"I beg you...to 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."

I want to interpret, share this AHA moment with you about how I get what he's saying, finally. But those answers are just my answers.

I love having this space for "contemplating." Here is where we are doing it. Living our questions. Without even noticing it, I believe, like Rilke, we'll all live into our answers.