“The marvellous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.” David Whyte
I love this wise insight from the poet David Whyte. And suspect it is even more relevant today than when penned in 2011.
In the article – 10 Questions That Have No Right To Go Away – David refers to an earlier poem Sometimes (also included in Essentials).
As I stand here now, the penultimate stanza draws me:
questions
that have patiently
waited for you
And I want to be quiet enough to hear them…