Creative Tensions by Rilke ( Poet )

The future enters into us by way of tensions in order to transform
itself in us, long before it happens.
This is why it is so important to be lonely, and attentive, when one
is sad; because the apparently uneventful and stark moment at
which our future sets foot in us is so much closer to life, than that
other noisy and fortuitous point of time at which it happens to us
as if from outside.
The more still, more patient, and more open we are when we are
sad, so much the deeper and so much the more unswervingly
does the new go into us, so much the better do we make it ours,
so much the more will it be our destiny.