Ask yourself the question, “What is an essential question that defies any answer right now, but that I would like to live my way into?” Take the time you need to hone the quality of this inquiry. Make it both spacious and focused enough to be worth spending a month, spending a year with as a close companion, and see what happens.

Consider these words of Rainer Maria Rilke: “Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”