Unanswered Questions

After 20 years of working with people with cancer, I find it possible to neither doubt nor accept the unprovable but simply remain open and wait.

I accept that I may never know where truth lies in such matters. The most important questions don't seem to have ready answers. But the questions themselves have a healing power when they are shared. An answer is an invitation to stop thinking about something, to stop wondering. Life has no such stopping places, life is a process whose every event is connected the moment that just went by. An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

- Rachel Naomi Remen MD, Kitchen Table Wisdom, Stories that Heal p293