As I struggle to deal with the mess of culture shock and transitioning back into life in the U.S., I have been blessed with so many wise, encouraging, graceful, gentle people to help me sort through all that I have seen and heard and learned. My friend, Kelly, lived in Romania last semester. The other night she sent me this quote that I found so profound.
"...I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to 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, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
from "Letters to a Young Poet"
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