We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.
Our whole life is solving puzzles.