Rainer Maria Rilke: "Letters to a young poet". Very "Yi-ish".

[soshin]

The original is German, I think this may be a good translation:

"(...) I would beg you, dear sir, as best I can to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books penned in a language most foreign to you. Don’t search for answers now that cannot be given because you could not live them. And it is about living it all. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, (...) without realising it, you will gradually come to live yourself into the answer."

 

[Trojina]

That would be a good entry for hexagram 4 in wikiwing

 

[Liselle]

Great minds quote alike...some website owner or another agrees with you and put this quote in her I Ching course ...

 

[soshin]

Already done, Trojina.

By the way, the letters to a young poet in my eyes are world literature of the first rank, written with an incredible depth and warmth. Especially letters I, IV, VI, VII and VIII.

The first one is written quite specifically to the young poet (but makes for a great start), the other letters recommended by me above are generally valid, I think, for everyone of us to some degree.

AND: Quite a lot is very quoteable.

Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875–1926) - Letters to a Young Poet

Rilke's letters to a young poet Franz Xaver Kappus, written between 1902 and 1908, in English translation.

www.poetryintranslation.com

 

[soshin]

Great minds quote alike...some website owner or another agrees with you and put this quote in her I Ching course ...

Oh, I would be glad to see that happen.