Nice words from Cheryl Richardson's "Uncertainty....Finding Peace Within a Storm"

I wish that all who are going through uncertainty (just like me at this moment) to be reminded of the following words that I extracted from a newsletter Cheryl Richardson (life coach) (newsletter@cherylrichardson.com).

 

 

"............I don't know about you, but it's challenging for me to be patient, to live with uncertainty, or to sit still in a storm. I'm restless, impatient, and far more interested in getting answers than being with questions.  But, therein lies the beauty of transition and change.  It forces us to grow, to strengthen our spiritual maturity, and to fall out of the comfortably numb rut that eventually leads to regret and unbearable pain. 

 

Our conversation reminded me of the well-known passage from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. 

 

If you're experiencing a difficult time, do yourself a favor and use this quote to help stabilize the rough waters of your busy mind.  Take your time and read it with your heart, not your head.  It's a message that gently reminds us that life is about staying with and living the journey, not waiting to arrive at a destination.

 

Have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart and 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"