Love the Questions

A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. . .

Be patient
Toward all that is unsolved 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,
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.

It's beautiful. Julia and I read it the other day as we sat in her living room trying to move toward our dreams, wishing we knew all the answers of how, where, with whom, and most of all, when. Huh, live the questions. . . How do you do that? (Another question.) I guess to really live the questions, we are moving forward without worry, fear, without doubt. We are doing our best with it right where it is. We are loving the journey. We see it as an adventure with a general idea of where we'd like to end up, knowing that the destination could be different and better than we could imagine. That is, if we never give up on the adventure. We keep doing the next thing.
So, we are still on our way. We started working on this women's awakening thing about a year ago. It's had some interesting twists and turns. We could've bagged it. But, here we are, doing something, doing several things actually, and one of them is write something on this blog every day. Then maybe, just maybe, one day we will gradually live our way into the dream. ~Julie