Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Don’t ask for any advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that

in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame (that is: morally) at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you.