The Courage to Sit with the Questions
I took this picture on my trip to Ireland. A rare and memorable moment.
“Wisdom isn’t about having answers. It’s the courage to sit with the questions long enough that they carve truth into your bones.”
Life will hand you storms, silence, and contradictions. It will give you days where nothing makes sense and nights where the weight of the unknown keeps you awake. Our instinct is often to fix, escape, or demand answers quickly—because uncertainty feels unbearable.
But wisdom lives elsewhere.
The wise don’t rush to patch every hole in the roof when the storm rolls in. They stand still long enough to feel the rain, to listen to the thunder, to know that even chaos has a rhythm. They don’t silence the questions in their hearts with shallow answers—they breathe, they listen, they let time do its quiet work.
Wisdom is not built in the noise of easy solutions. It is formed in the slow alchemy of pain and beauty, in the waiting that feels endless, in the surrender to not knowing.
And what comes of that waiting? Depth.
Out of depth comes clarity.
Out of clarity comes strength.
The kind of strength that cannot be shaken by passing storms, because it was not built on quicksand but carved into your very bones.
So if you find yourself with more questions than answers, take heart. You are in the sacred space where wisdom is born.
✨ Reflection Prompt:
What is one question in your life right now that you’ve been rushing to answer? What might shift if you allowed yourself to sit with it instead?
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