rainer maria ilke

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 be able to live them,
and the point is,
to live everything,
live the questions now,
perhaps then,
some day far in the future,
you will gradually,
without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer,
what we choose to fight is so tiny,
what fights with us is so great,
if only we would let ourselves be dominated,
as things do by some immense storm,
we would become strong too,
and not need names,
there are no classes in life for beginners,
right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult