one step at a time

A friend's post script on her email says this:

...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.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
in Letters to a Young Poet

Beautiful statement. I too often try to figure out what is going to happen before it does, I want to know the ending and not actually live the moment. But by living, moving forward, taking steps, the path will be laid out before me in due time. I knew what was going to happen before it did, I might not have taken certain steps and not learned the lessons I have.