Living questions

Living questions Instead of chasing after easy answers, the poet Rilke urged a young artist to “live the questions”. Sound advice maybe, but which questions really matter, and how can we go about living them? “I beg you … to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and 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 know how 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 Yes, it’s all very well ‘living the questions’ but which questions are we talking about here? All of them? Some of them? Which ones? Maybe it’s true you can do anything, but you can’t do everything. And despite what Thomas Edison thought, you can’t be interested in everything either. So…