“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. 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.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

Learning to live the questions is a part of our spiritual formation. Letting go of our need for having the right answer defines an important passage in our maturity. Maturity is more than amassing the right facts and having all the answers tied up in our doctrinal statements and political alignments. There are deeper stirrings within each soul that we awaken and pay attention to.