tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post5320402591998564238..comments2023-07-21T05:31:02.451+02:00Comments on A Year with Rilke: Live the QuestionsRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-54321789998830945332012-01-21T22:46:33.514+01:002012-01-21T22:46:33.514+01:00one of my all time favorite quotes!one of my all time favorite quotes!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15349928247626849914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-75994205799481085232011-02-20T14:18:50.434+01:002011-02-20T14:18:50.434+01:00wonderfulwonderfulStratozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148600260976577216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-91024099043345474002011-02-19T20:36:04.965+01:002011-02-19T20:36:04.965+01:00Indeed, Lorenzo. Resistance. Non-resistance. Melti...Indeed, Lorenzo. Resistance. Non-resistance. Melting into the questions is a form of non-resistance (ie openness?) Resistance is so necessary in our worldly affairs (eg Pearl Square). And 'passive', non-violent resistance is important (eg Gandhi). Ultimately, in our spiritual lives, non-resistance and openness to the flip side of perfection - leads, paradoxically, to a strong resilience ...The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-46605154110545805812011-02-19T18:02:54.321+01:002011-02-19T18:02:54.321+01:00Lorenzo, it's interesting you brought up scien...Lorenzo, it's interesting you brought up science because I edited out mentioning science from my comment, with misgivings about leaving it unsaid. You brought it up for me——thanks. <br /><br />It's worth considering that questions and answers are two forms of the same thing (thought), just as water and ice are two forms of H2O.Dan Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628603380292404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-44094385556701047252011-02-19T11:50:31.816+01:002011-02-19T11:50:31.816+01:00I like the notion that Dan cites here of answers m...I like the notion that Dan cites here of answers melting into questions, not in the sense of that common aging experience in which we find that our old certainties seem to wither and fade, but in the sense that all answers do nothing more than beg new and better questions. Even science, which is so often misperceived (in my opinion) as searching for ultimate and absolute answers, really amounts to an endless search for more sophisticated questions, to a delight in mystery, not some self-imposed need to vanquish it. There are no answers, just wiser questions. The corollary to 'live the questions' is 'love the questions'.<br /><br />As for the nature of the questions we each ask, that which is "unresolved in our hearts", as Rilke puts it, those inner queries must and do vary from individual to individual. They will not lead to acceptance and non-resistance in every one. Burning questions and their headlong pursuit, in the stimulating knowledge that no pat answers are to be had, can also fire the engines of defiance and resistance.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-7442845044455519442011-02-19T04:17:44.922+01:002011-02-19T04:17:44.922+01:00We have become wise
when we finally realize:
An...We have become wise <br />when we finally realize: <br /><br />Answers eventually melt into questions.Dan Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628603380292404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-61772325648836510882011-02-19T03:21:36.347+01:002011-02-19T03:21:36.347+01:00It is funny, I always thought the older I got, the...It is funny, I always thought the older I got, the less questions I would have. But the opposite has happened. The "wiser" and more aware of the world and all of it's nuances, the more I find I don't have the answers. I guess that is where faith comes in...Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-38705706372266139552011-02-18T22:32:42.945+01:002011-02-18T22:32:42.945+01:00That quote from Rilke, and the wonderful comments ...That quote from Rilke, and the wonderful comments on them, cheered me on a rather dull and miserable day. You are quite right - accepting the pain, the sadness, the everything, and living it - is a liberating process. (Very much in tune with Buddhist thought once more.) It's a miracle really how this conscious act of non-resistance is stronger, more positive and more effective than resistance - and it goes part-way to answering the questions. Perhaps.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-1542782683382474182011-02-18T19:36:19.379+01:002011-02-18T19:36:19.379+01:00Beyond this primer of Rilke (for me too), I also t...Beyond this primer of Rilke (for me too), I also take it for all things. Live the ___________ (fill in the blank). If I am lonely, Live the loneliness now. If I am sad, Live sadness. This is also an Osho concept and one that transformed my thinking/feeling a few years ago. If you say, when you are sad, <i>I am Sadness</i>, there is something freeing, uplifting and utterly non-resistant about it. It's strange how accepting sadness, or anything, makes it less painful . . . and not so sad. I am questions.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-30114532703328958642011-02-18T18:07:46.099+01:002011-02-18T18:07:46.099+01:00This one lives in my heart like an ancient mantra....This one lives in my heart like an ancient mantra..Marjoryhttp://marjorymejia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-80655758359902943262011-02-18T14:52:26.652+01:002011-02-18T14:52:26.652+01:00i have always loved that quote - it is one of my v...i have always loved that quote - it is one of my very favorite. it reminds me not to get so caught up in the search that i overlook the moment and the now.Charhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03851293154388793520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-72734900308766816812011-02-18T13:50:32.386+01:002011-02-18T13:50:32.386+01:00An important word in this quote is 'perhaps...An important word in this quote is 'perhaps'. As George suggests, there is no guarantee that by 'living the questions' we will find the answers. Rilke adds the proviso 'perhaps'...<br /><br />In a strange way I find this comforting. The quest for answers and meaning can be exhausting and distracting. We need to 'live everything', including the questions and the not knowing. 'Digging for answers' thrusts our vision into the future and we miss the present moment with all of its messy, exciting, beautiful lack of resolution.Bonnie Zieman, M.Ed.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00282469017360136275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-66009426444622606262011-02-18T13:16:08.610+01:002011-02-18T13:16:08.610+01:00As I suspect is the case for many Rilke fans, this...As I suspect is the case for many Rilke fans, this is my favorite passage from Rilke's writings. Its wisdom is both ancient and deep, and it resonates more with me now than when I first read it many years ago. To some extent, I feel that I have lived the questions into partial answers. For the most part, however, I have come to believe that the patience Rilke advocates must be a lifetime's discipline because many of our deepest, unresolved questions are likely to remain unresolved at the end of the day.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-37390914569655772472011-02-18T10:48:05.139+01:002011-02-18T10:48:05.139+01:00Such a succinct and beautiful encapsulation of wha...Such a succinct and beautiful encapsulation of what may be the mother lode of Rilke's philosophical gold mine ... live the questions. And so much turns on that preposition <i>into</i>, does it not? Live the questions now in the hope that one day, perhaps, we may "gradually, without noticing, live into the answer".Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-57411573194495474282011-02-18T06:48:51.669+01:002011-02-18T06:48:51.669+01:00Ah, this is my all time favorite Rilke quote.
I c...Ah, this is my all time favorite Rilke quote.<br /><br />I came across it years ago as a college student, printed it (old school, you know, before cel phones, etc), and put it in my wallet. Since then, I've reprinted it numerous times but still carry it with me. I quote it to friends as advice from time to time, and try to live it, every day, into the answers.*https://www.blogger.com/profile/06484208765656281917noreply@blogger.com