A Path Toward a Full Life

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Personal Development, Presence, Mental Health, Wellness, Personal Growth, Meditation, Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Positive Psychology, Happiness, Buddhism

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this episode, we will talk about letting go of trying to find answers, and instead, living fully the questions of your life as a path to wholeness, enrichment, and fulfillment. To register for the upcoming retreat, visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298 And if you'd like to get daily inspirational...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about living the questions of your life and
0:16.1	letting the answers unfold.
0:18.9	More to come on that in a moment.
0:20.8	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, today's episode is going to be based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilka, translated
0:50.8	by Stephen Mitchell, and it's from letters to a young poet.
0:55.2	This is called live the questions now.
0:59.5	Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
1:10.0	as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
1:15.0	Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now,
1:20.0	because you would not be able to live them.
1:25.1	And the point is to live everything.
1:28.6	Live the questions now.
1:31.8	Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
1:40.0	I really love the first line of that poem. Have patience with everything
1:48.3	unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
1:54.0	Patience with everything unresolved in your heart.
1:58.0	Notice what it's like to feel into the truth of that.
2:03.6	We all hold unresolved things in our heart, the things we might share with a friend, the things
2:11.4	we're wrestling with outwardly and then the things that are harder for us to even name.
2:19.0	Deep existential struggles, pains, traumas that are unresolved.
2:26.4	And we can so desperately want answers to these things.
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