Best of Our Blogs: February 28, 2014

Living the Unknown
On my fridge, there is a magnet with the following quote:
“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 foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able 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
It’s there because I constantly need the reminder. When unknowns lurk in my life, I want to bury myself in answers through research, advice, classes, surfing online. It feels like a safety net, a place to hold you when there’s nowhere to grasp.
And yet, to not know is a part of life. It is what makes the world exciting and terrifying at the same time. When there are too many unknowns and not enough faith, anxiety abounds. How do you live through the answers as Rilke says?
To minimize the fear, our bloggers remind us this week that distraction, knowledge, and even laughter can be the antidote.Through reading their posts, you might find peace in knowing that the answers you’re waiting for will come in its own time.
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