The Quest
Much of our modern world tries to minimize uncertainty.
We think that if we could only know the answers, it would give us the answer.
If we knew the "right" path, we would feel at peace.
What if the opposite were true?
What if contentment is found not in the answer but in the question?
Everything Good, True, and Beautiful that has ever unfolded in my life did so within the sacred chambers of the unknown.
How about you?
If you're reading these words, you may consider yourself on a Spiritual Journey—a Quest—which is the root of "Question."
Rilke stated:
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue."
Transformation occurs within the liminal space of uncertainty.
When we let go of how life should be, we open a portal for mystery to guide us to where we're meant to be.
How ironic that we seek transformation yet resist change.
Yet, it is only by being okay with the unknown that something new can emerge.
Rilke is telling us to embrace uncertainty. He goes on to say,
"Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
So to you, Soul friend.
I write this as an invitation to release your grasp on the future and surrender to the unknown.
Let go of needing to have it all planned.
You'll never have it "figured out."
Keep taking leaps into the mystery.
I'm rooting for you.