“Epiphanots”. I love this! Walking with unanswered questions brings me to Rainer Marie Rilke’s poem from Letters to a young poet, where he invites us to :
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the 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.”
Excellent twist David to make one think outside the virtual box of ones life. In all fairness the definition (one of them) for an epiphany is a sudden and striking realization or insight, often leading to a deeper understanding of a situation or problem. So now to your point almost getting to this realization can be an Epiphanot but more like what you described in your journey...it was really not a case of not making it (the insight one was looking for in fullness) but simply a long journey to that place we have in our minds. Now for we bold Christians and most importantly practicing Catholics today is special in honoring the visit of the Magi, the 3 wise men or wise guys as I tell my kids :) Thought to be from Persian decent, who had an intimate knowledge of astrology and meanings of a new king being born and seen it in the star formations. They had known of this for some time and traveled over a 1000 miles to get to Jerusalem (The capital of the Jewish Nation at the time of Jesus). The honoring of the new king was one thing and to tie this into what you are suggesting...we are all on a long journey and with resolve we make it and hopefully have an Epiphany in our lives not unlike our Ikigai Quest. We may fall short but can get back up and continue....the quest is still there...it is us that need to be transformed by the experience....like The Wise Guys who by that experience traveled another way home to avoid Herod (the false king) and were never they same....they were much better!
Great post! The place my mind jumped to while reading the post was song composition. Occasionally a song will reveal itself in whole form, but that is unusual. More commonly a phrase will bubble to the surface. If ignored it will dissolve back into the depths… but if it is nurtured it will grow. A lot of musical learning is like that.
Editing your own work is always difficult made more so by autocorrect lol. I never see the errors until AFTER I have posted…. But there is some learning in that, too!
Great insights and very useful advice for what seems to be coming ahead! Thank you and Happy New Year! Looking forrward to insights that will reveal themselves as the year progresses!
“Epiphanots”. I love this! Walking with unanswered questions brings me to Rainer Marie Rilke’s poem from Letters to a young poet, where he invites us to :
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the 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.”
Excellent post David.
Excellent twist David to make one think outside the virtual box of ones life. In all fairness the definition (one of them) for an epiphany is a sudden and striking realization or insight, often leading to a deeper understanding of a situation or problem. So now to your point almost getting to this realization can be an Epiphanot but more like what you described in your journey...it was really not a case of not making it (the insight one was looking for in fullness) but simply a long journey to that place we have in our minds. Now for we bold Christians and most importantly practicing Catholics today is special in honoring the visit of the Magi, the 3 wise men or wise guys as I tell my kids :) Thought to be from Persian decent, who had an intimate knowledge of astrology and meanings of a new king being born and seen it in the star formations. They had known of this for some time and traveled over a 1000 miles to get to Jerusalem (The capital of the Jewish Nation at the time of Jesus). The honoring of the new king was one thing and to tie this into what you are suggesting...we are all on a long journey and with resolve we make it and hopefully have an Epiphany in our lives not unlike our Ikigai Quest. We may fall short but can get back up and continue....the quest is still there...it is us that need to be transformed by the experience....like The Wise Guys who by that experience traveled another way home to avoid Herod (the false king) and were never they same....they were much better!
It was a total moment of divine serendipity as I hadn't even thought about the day of Epiphany.
Great post! The place my mind jumped to while reading the post was song composition. Occasionally a song will reveal itself in whole form, but that is unusual. More commonly a phrase will bubble to the surface. If ignored it will dissolve back into the depths… but if it is nurtured it will grow. A lot of musical learning is like that.
I love that connection and you are right, the process of creating a song aligns so well.
I just edited out the typos lol.
I didn't notice any. 😉 I tell people they can always be confident my writing isn't Ai because of all the typos i miss.
Editing your own work is always difficult made more so by autocorrect lol. I never see the errors until AFTER I have posted…. But there is some learning in that, too!
POST! Then clarify, don’t wait for perfection 😊
A new word for me, and some insights about curiosity I will take with me, thanks
Great insights and very useful advice for what seems to be coming ahead! Thank you and Happy New Year! Looking forrward to insights that will reveal themselves as the year progresses!