Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rilke urges a disciplined faith in the significance of one’s inner life and creative labor. The “greatest” is not public acclaim but participation in a larger, often invisible order—art, vocation, or spiritual maturation—accessible through sustained feeling and work. The second sentence suggests a characteristically Rilkean dynamic: conviction shapes perception, and perception in turn shapes the world one inhabits. By “cultivating” belief, the individual gradually brings their lived reality into alignment with that inward commitment, not by wishful thinking but by the steady formation of attention, patience, and practice.