Embracing sadness

Hi fellow book-lovers, I've been making it through Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet recently and wondering why I put off reading it for so many years. Many of the passages in this book have moved me, given me wisdom, or comforted me. In one letter, Rilke explains that sadness can bring along new changes, which he hopes will make us look inward at our transformation with curiosity and awe. I found this passage very impactful:

"Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy complexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent."