Peace or something like it

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
I think that this is the exact reason I never seem to finish anything...and have handfuls of unfinished projects. I lack this thing called patience. According to the chakra model, I have an overactive crown (sahasrara) which is considered to be the chakra of consciousness, empathy, and energy. However, my root (muladhara) or sense of grounding, is grossly underactive. I've never really felt "at home" and I've never been at peace feeling this way. Does this simply come down to thinking too much? I suppose the goal then, is to allow my mind a chance to be at peace not knowing, or as Rilke has said, "live the question."

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