"How could we forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are turned into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us,once, beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that Life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall."
From Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke
What "dragons" of yours need to be invited for tea?
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