"You must be patient as a sick man and confident as a convalescent; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are the doctor too, who has to watch over himself." The point being that you should be everything -- from a leader to a follower, from soup to nuts, from earth to sky -- because no one else will be everything for you.
At the same time, do not try to overdo your doings. "Do not observe yourself too much. Do not draw too hasty conclusions from what happens to you; let it simply happen to you."
From the wise and double-edged musings of Rainer Maria Rilke in "Letters to a Young Poet".
...so earthly, so celestial!
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