Hi everyone, it's Eric here with another mini episode and this week

I want to talk about living the questions in our lives. One of my favorite books of

all time is Letters to a Young Poet by Rilka and the premise of the book is

there's this young man, his name is Franz Kapas, who's a budding poet and he

writes to Rilka asking for advice and one of my favorite passages goes like this.

I want to beg you as much as I can dear sir to be patient towards all that is

unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked

rooms and like books that are 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.

And I absolutely love that quote and the quote made me think to ask in the

Facebook group some of the questions that people were holding in their lives

and the responses were overwhelming and I thought I'd just read a couple of

them. I've summarized a couple to kind of group together multiple ones but

there things like this will my health condition come back? Should I stay in the

relationship I'm in or should I leave? Will I always be single? What's the point of

it all? How do I find peace within? I particularly like this one how do I find the

energy to do good if doing good takes so much energy? What is my deathbed regret

really going to be? After 10 years of chronic illness that took away my career

and dreams of a family what is my purpose now? Now I don't propose to have the

answers to perhaps any of these questions but I have a couple thoughts about

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