334: How to Hold the Questions of Others

How can we learn to love questions themselves as much as the answers we seek? And can we learn to be the ones who sincerely welcome the questions of others, so that they have room to breathe and grow? Because it may well be that often, in the midst of the complexity of life, it’s the very bringing of our sincere questions to one another in which the seeds of the responses we need can begin to grow.



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A Gift



by Denise Levertov



Just when you seem to yourself 

nothing but a flimsy web 

of questions, you are given 

the questions of others to hold 

in the emptiness of your hands, 

songbird eggs that can still hatch 

if you keep them warm, 

butterflies opening and closing themselves 

in your cupped palms, trusting you not to injure 

their scintillant fur, their dust. 

You are given the questions of others 

as if they were answers 

to all you ask. Yes, perhaps 

this gift is your answer.



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