Being Patient Toward All

I read this quote the other day and thought of you with our conversations about mindfulness and accepting life as it comes... As this says below, "Take whatever comes with great trust..." 

 

Be Patient Toward All

"I want to beg you as much as you can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek 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. Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility of shaping and forming as a particularly happy and pure way of living; train yourself to it—but take whatever comes with great trust, and if only it comes out of your own will, out of some need of your innermost being, take it upon yourself and hate nothing." 
-Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet 

As I was stuck in traffic on 1-5 coming back from a meeting in Renton on Thursday afternoon, I saw this gorgeous rainbow coming down right near the stadium. 

It made me smile in the midst of my hour long commute back home from Renton

because the end of the rainbow seemed to be on our normal loop that we run 

together, Elizabeth. That's certainly a pot of gold in my book...  

(and this time sitting in traffic was a great chance to just practice acceptance and let it be---as the quote talks about above...)