Daniel Lubetzky

When Tamar at OneVoice read my Trinity commencement speech, she pointed me to these beautiful and far richer words from Rainer Maria Rilke:

“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.”

                                                     – From Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Four (16 July 1903), (as translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Also notable:

“No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”