Don't let yourself be define by your setbacks
I really need to take this quote to heart. I have had a couple of recent events happen in my life that have gotten me to be more contemplative, to say the least. I keep asking myself the same questions, over and over: What exactly did I do wrong in this situation? What can I learn from this experience? How can I keep myself from repeating this sort of thing? I am working through these questions, and even though I don't seem to be finding the answers, it reminds me of my favorite quote by Rainer Maria Rilke:
I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, 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.
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