"Seek not to know all the answers, but to better understand the questions."
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." (Chinese proverb)
Why is there so much suffering?
What is suffering?
Why is there so much hate?
What is hate?
Why are so many people unhappy?
What is happiness?
Why are we here?
What is "here"?
Why do we have to die?
What is death?
Why is life so hard?
What is life?
Why is there so much misunderstanding?
What is understanding?
Why is there so much inequality?
What is equality?
Why are there so many different religions?
What is religion?
Do we necessarily need absolute/definitive (or solid) answers to our deeper questions, or can we accept "not knowing" as a possible answer?
Often when we think we "know" an answer, we become "blind" to other possible answers. May I suggest, that there is a finality to "knowing" that makes it hard for us to imagine, to visualise, to dream, to hope, and to believe. Settling on an answer closes the door to possibilities, asking questions flings the door open.
(Citizen X)
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
(Claude Levi-Strauss)
“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.”
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
(Madeleine L'Engle)
(Madeleine L'Engle)
"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist." (Dom Helder Camara)
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