A path with heart is an adaptive journey. Your fundamental beliefs and assumptions will be called into question. You will be required to do more learning, unlearning, and relearning than you thought possible. You may need to change your priorities, habits, and patterns of engaging with others. You will definitely keep learning new ways of thinking and living.
But at the heart of this adaptive journey is the capacity to live with questions. You will have many and be presented with many more. This understanding is best captured by Rainer Maria Rilke. As he wrote:
“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 answer.”
The questions will change over time, and there will always be more questions. When we embrace the questions as if they are long lost friends, welcoming them into our life journey, and when we love them unconditionally, then over time we discover and live into the answers. The questions are the gateway to new clarity, greater perspective, and more confidence to keep moving forward along the path.
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