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 written in a very foreign tongue.
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 find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
At first it seemed just another foggy morning, I captured it all the while thinking about this New Year about to start.
- How could I make this coming year different from the one about to leave?
A few minutes later passing by the same window there it was greeting me, the sun I had been missing the last few days.
- Will posting everyday be the challenge that will guide me towards the answers I am seeking?
- What will I be focusing on this year knowing that what I focus on expands?
In all its glory like a good omen the sun made me smile for I knew it would all be OK. Here I am living my questions and sharing them with you.
Tell me dear friend, any questions you are ready to be living?
Far Away In The Sunshine 
What wonderful questions to ask at the end of the year. WIll have to ponder these myself. May 2013 bring you happy adventures and beautiful days!
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I am glad this will give you food for thoughts and I wish you the same Kate; a year filled with happy adventures and beautiful days 🙂
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I adore the images in this post as the glory of the day gently reveals itself. I don’t know what my question for the year will be. I suspect I will have many, and am open to them as they come.
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Being open to what comes next has always been the best way to enjoy it. This year might be one of answers for you. Looking forward to see what will be in store fro you
🙂
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Anyes, you are blessed. This is such a wonderful post right before the New Year. I love the way you captured the sun of God. I love the Rilke quote. My question for this year will be “How can I serve?”
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This questions is such an awesome question Kozo and Bloggers for Peace is one of the way you can do it. I am so excited to be part of it 🙂
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Anyes…your generosity of mind and heart certainly shine through in this post! Your images are exquisite….Rilke’s quote…oh, how he breaks my heart every time I read him.
I’m anxiously awaiting your “word for 2013”!. I’m getting closer to mine.
All the best as you step forward into another year of new frontier!
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This year for some reason feels like a birth of some sort…the real me is slowly emerging after those few years looking for her…I am ready and looking forward to what will come next
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I’m a fan of Rainer Maria Rilke…always moves me. I love how you used the photographs taken at a different time, under different conditions…excellent way to show how nothing is the same always and those subtle changes can make such a different to what we think and how we feel. And yes, sunshine makes SUCH a difference, always. As for me and questions…some I am constantly pursuing it seems, like “why am I here?” “what is my purpose?” and sometimes the answers seem simple, other times I have to weed through and decipher what is coming to me in order to find the answer. Some questions simply remain unanswered and elusive. Great post!
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The unanswered question also have a purpose…giving us time to be ready to accept the answer…Wishing you both questions and answers you can be living xo
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What absolutely stunning..magical early morning imagery. I love that ‘Letter To A Young Poet’. Wishing you and yours all the best in this up and coming new year!
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Some mornings are indeed magical and I was lucky today. Wishing you Marcie and all your family the very best for this coming New Year 🙂
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honestly i am unsure the questions to ask this year…who will i be, is my daily question…question everything though…i am sure the questions will find me…smiles.
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Your writing is the path to discovering who you are and for reading it daily I have to say you are a very talented poet and writer…maybe this year is one of answers for you…:-)
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Such a lovely shining light you are, accompanied by the sun shining gloriously through the grey, into your window! Living our questions… I love that. Lately the question I’ve been living with is, What Brings Me Joy? I want to live with this question as I enter the new year, determined to do more of the things that bring my heart the greatest joy. Thank you for another thought provoking and insightful post!
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I have a feeling this question of yours will bring you interesting discoveries.I am looking forward to you sharing those with us xo
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Ah, that is one of my favorite bits from Letters … thank you for posting it here. Always, living the questions… and not needing the answers can be so freeing…
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Just living them is plenty to keep me busy 🙂
Lovely to see you here Amy
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Living the questions. That’s a way of being wise, isn’t it? Sitting okay with them. Moving through the answers. I love the quote, “some years ask questions and some have the answers.” Zora Neale Hurston, I think. Love your images.
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Interesting Barbara, I love how “some years ask questions…”. It looks like this year is one full of questions and I am at peace with it 🙂
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