Soothing for times of transition

This is an excerpt of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Letter 8.  Many of you may know Rilke as the Austrian poet and novelist, celebrated for his philosophical exploration of mysticism, mortality, and the human condition.  There are a lot of moving poems of his I recommend exploring, but this piece of writing I am coming across for the first time, and I just love how it talks to transition, change, and allowing yourself to feel exactly how you are feeling in any given moment. I hope you enjoy it as I did. 

"[...]And so, my dear Herr Kappus, you must not be horrified, if a grief rises up before you greater than any you have seen before. If over your hands and all your doings there passes an uneasiness, like light and cloud-shadows, you must bethink yourself, that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it is holding you in its hands, and will not let you fall.

Why do you want to exclude any disturbance, any woe or sadness from your life, seeing that you do not know what work their presence is performing in yourself? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question, whence has come all that and whither is it going?

Seeing that you know that you are in a state of transition and there is nothing you could desire more than to transform yourself. If something in your present life is sickly, remember that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself of foreign elements. Then one must just help it to be sick, to have its sickness in its entirety and to let it come right out, for that is its means of progress.

So much is happening in you now, that you must be patient like a sick man and confident like a convalescent, for perhaps you are both these two. And you are still more, you are also the doctor, who must watch over himself. But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait, and that is above all what you must do now, in so far as you are your own doctor.
Do not watch yourself too closely, do not be too quick to draw conclusions from that which is happening to you. Simply let it happen, otherwise you will come too easily to look, reproachfully (that is:morally) upon your past, which naturally takes part in everything that is happening to you now. [...]