“There are no answers; just dance.”
What is your relationship with existential questions?
Do you tend to fear them? Suppress them?
Or perhaps they amuse you, bring a slight smile, or even sadness?
We are destined to live with questions.
The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote:
“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.”
To live a good and meaningful life, we must ask questions: What is good for me? What interests me?
This quote is a response to the anxiety and tension that can arise when we confront various existential questions.
Living is not always easy, and we have the responsibility to make decisions and be active participants in our journey. By trying to love the questions, we can reduce the fear of the unknown and embrace uncertainty.
When we agree to live with our questions, we help our minds understand that they are simply another part of life. In this way, we turn unknowing into a natural, healthy, and acceptable state.
