You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.
Interpretation
Self-care and patience are essential components of healing.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in one's own healing process. Rilke metaphorically compares individuals to their own physicians, indicating that while external help may be needed, the essence of healing lies within oneself, and sometimes the best course of action is to simply be patient and allow time to take its course.
In practice
You might use this quote when discussing the importance of mental health in a seminar.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.
Donβt let the urgent take precedent over the important.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
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