To live everything

Few years ago, a friend asked me to consider the words below.

It has taken me a while to finally understand them and myself. 

   „I beg you, to 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.”

 

(Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1903, Letters to a Young Poet)

This peacefulness

I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted

To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.

How free it is, you have no idea how free ----

The peacefulness is so big it dazes you

(fragment from Sylvia Plath: Tulips)

                                            * Domnului profesor A. M., cultivator şi adorator de flori.