"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
from Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
What questions do I need to live into? There are so many to choose from: How do I bring more joy into my moments? Why do I keep thinking there is not enough time? How do I live more in the present? What do I want for dinner? Like most traditionally schooled leaders, I used to think answers were the ticket to success or happiness. Now I find more possibilities in the questions and then experimenting with answers. Why did I need to have answers? To look smart. To fight the fear of uncertainty. To pretend I was competent. And yet to be fully alive and resilient questions are the answer.
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