Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.
Interpretation
Practice patience with unresolved feelings, as understanding may take time to surface.
This quote emphasizes the importance of patience in dealing with emotional uncertainties and unresolved issues within ourselves. Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that we should not rush to find answers or solutions immediately, as some truths and insights may only become clear with time and introspection. It encourages a gentle acceptance of the unknown and the belief that clarity will eventually come.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-discovery, one might say this quote to encourage the audience to embrace uncertainty.
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.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
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