Live the Questions
Rainer Maria Rilke · 1903
"Do not rush to find answers to life's deepest dilemmas; you must learn to love the questions themselves until you gradually live your way into the answer."
When we are young, we are desperate for certainty. We want to know exactly what our career should be, who we should marry, and what the meaning of life is. When we can't find the answers immediately, we feel a deep, agonizing anxiety.
The poet Rilke advised a young writer to stop searching for the answers, because 'you would not be able to live them.' The answers to deep existential questions cannot be handed to you in a book; they can only be understood through decades of lived experience.
Why does Rilke advise against frantically searching for the answers to life's biggest dilemmas?
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Panpsychism
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