If you trust in Nature, in what is simple in Nature, in the
small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge,
immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as
someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything
will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in
your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your
innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge. 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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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