Rilke

 

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses

who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.  

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence,

something helpless that wants our love.

 

 

Be patient toward all that is

Unsolved in your heart

And try to love the questions

Themselves.

Do not now seek the answers

that 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 gradually,

Without noticing it,

Living along some distant day

Into the answer.