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Writing I Love – Love the questions themselves

by | Apr 25, 2019 | Beautiful Leadership, Books I Love, Open Leadership

rilke love the questions

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A few days ago I wrote: “Sometimes the question is more important than the answer” with a take for business leaders and individuals on allowing time on the question rather than racing to make a decision or to make decision after decision in what may be the wrong direction.

I am often inspired by beauty, whether in nature, human behaviour, art, music. Often it is beautiful writing that inspires me, so today I share a quote around sitting with questions from Rilke, author of a favourite book that I highly recommend: “Letters to a Young Poet”.