Found: Ebb Tide, Chapter One

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart

and try to love the questions themselves.

Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be

 given 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 answers.

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet

What a surprise it was when after an evening of questions, I read this.  

A gift that was handed to me.

Surprise.

Relief.

A quiet offering to my many questions.

**I found this quote in the latest book I am reading, A Year by the Sea, Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman, by Joan Anderson**