_lesyeuxdegigi 's review for:

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

5.0

reflective medium-paced

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Reading Rainer's letters made me reflect on a lot of things. 
Here are some of my favorite topics  talked about from this book

•  finding and pursuing passion,
•  creating art, 
• practicing patience,
• seeking peace and solidarity, 
•  vitality of learning how to love; it is hard but necessary
• accepting life with its highs and lows.  In the end, life is always right 😉

What i struggle to wrap my mind around is the idea  "there is beauty everywhere.” it is hard to believe as someone who lives in a 3rd world country and has seen all forms of what beauty is not. But then again, I realized that seeing all things ugly does not negate the presence of beauty, I guess I just have to learn how to find it. 

What i loved about the letters was how the lessons and advices were not forced or imposed; it was wonderfully penned that it allows you to not just agree to all words written but it also allows you to think for yourself. I love Ranier's humility and how there were hints of faith planted to the young poet all throughout the letters. 

i'll end this by giving a glimpse of how great this book is:

"You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. 

Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future."