#existenstialism

Le soleil se couche sur tous les rêveurs désespérés. Les couleurs orange brûlé et rouge clair se fondent dans le ciel bleu créant un affichage dégradé qui ne cesse de provoquer l’émerveillement ou l’envie de voyager. Un autre jour est passé. Des milliers de pensées sont allées et venues. Les sourires ont égayé notre journée. Le rire nous fait rêver de ce que le lendemain peut apporter. Les…

There was not very much that made me feel alive anymore.Life was just one bland mixture, painted on an imperfect canvas with fading and cheap colors.    Amateurish, ugly to the rest of the world.I was ugly on the inside, which distorted my reflection on the outside. my colors ran, they bled out.    Yet someday, somehow, someone found beauty in in me.Someone found beauty in me.Though I was poor…

“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."

Dear reader, I first discovered this bit of advice in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet while observing 40 days of silence at a monastery in New Mexico. Questions had led me there – ones about spirituality, God, existence, and my own life’s meaning – but surprisingly, even after nearly three months dedicated to prayer, reading, and writing, I left with very few answers. I did, however, leave with much more meaningful questions – ones that I’m still living into today.

Possessing an answer can bring about confidence and self-assuredness, but bypassing the discovery requisite of “living into the answer” can deprive the seeker of ever realizing the full weight of the answer itself.

So, in honor of this learning, I want to open this newsletter up to those who aren’t seeking answers, but are eager to ask more expansive questions.

What questions you have been asking?

With your replies, I’m going to create a topic calendar of regular newsletters focused on musing with you about the questions you raise.

Would you like to participate in this existential rambling with me?

The only right answer to this question is to question.

Happy asking,

Dane

я потеряла флешку, где было много всякого добра,  и вообще документов, работа продолжает быть работой, хотя люди классные, и в офисе появилась чудесная белая кошка без ушка, с которой мы подружились. она ласково мяукает, успешно клянчит сосиски и занимает место босса.

меня так перекрывает. что я больше не могу по инерции скользить дальше. духовный-худо-бедно-богатый экзистенциализм во все поля. пис.