We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is

not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors.  If it has abysses, these

abysses belong to us. If there are dangers, we must try to love them, and

only if we could arrange our lives in accordance with the principle that tells

us that we must always trust the difficult, then what now appears to us to

be alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience.

How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all

races: the myths about dragons that at the last moment are 

transformed into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are only

princesses waiting for us to act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Perhaps everything that frighten us is, in its deepest essence, something

helpless that wants our love.

So you must not be frightened is a sadness rises before you larger

than any you've ever seen, if an anxiety like light and cloud shadows moves

over your hands and everything that you do. You must realize that 

something has happened to you. Life has not forgotten you, that it holds you 

in its hands and will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of

your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all

you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.

~Ranier Maria Rilke