Answerless
- Keren Levi-Faran
- May 6
- 2 min read
On truths that don't arrive but emerge, like water, like silence.
Where the Asking Stops
You read.
You ask.
You ache to know.
And then the question softens.
The silence stretches.
And what once felt empty begins to echo with something deeper.
Not an answer.
But a knowing.
The River That Doesn't Explain
In Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse tells the story of a man who seeks truth by relinquishing his search.
He walks away from religion, renounces pleasure, and releases doctrine.
He tries hunger, thinking, and discipline.
And then he stops trying.
Not because he's lost.
Because he's finally listening.
The river becomes his teacher.
Not by answering, but by being.
The Wisdom Beneath the Current
We're taught to chase clarity as if answers will anchor us.
But some truths are tidal.
They come not through force but through surrender.
You don't have to define it to live it.
You don't have to solve it to let it move through you.
Sometimes, presence is the most honest response.
Questions to Drift With
What am I holding too tightly, hoping it will give me peace?
What would it feel like to stay, even without clarity?
Where might it flow if wisdom isn't something I earn but something I join?
"Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught."
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
You don't need to ask again.
You don't even need to know.
Only to be quiet enough
to feel what is already true
beneath the trying.
Some wisdom doesn't come to explain.
It comes to carry.
Like water.
Like silence.
Like something you've always known but forgot how to live.
You're invited to join it.
Download the Let Go to Listen practice and meet the place where answers stop, but knowing begins.
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