On work, on Life Rilke

...And when one day one perceives that their occupations are palty, their 
professions petrified and no longer linked with living, why not then continue to 
look like a child upon it all as upon something unfamiliar, from out of the 
depth of one own world, out of the expanse of ones own solitude, which is itself 
work, status and vocation? Why want to exchange a childs wise incomprehension 
for. Defensiveness and disdain, since incomprehension is after all being alone, 
while defensiveness and disdain are a sharing in that from which one wants by 
these means to keep apart...think,dear sir, of the world you carry within you 
and call this thinking what you will....whether it be remembering your own 
childhood or yearning towards your own future....only be attentive to that which 
rises up in you and set it above everything that you observe  about you. 

What goes on in your innermost being is worthy of your love, you must somehow 
keep working at it and not lose too much time and too much courage in clarifying 
your attitude towards people. Who tells you that you have one anyway !?