You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.
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Quantum Est In Rebus Inane 
a lovely bene-dictio reminds of the issue of mysteries vs problems:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcel/#6
Funny, I was working on that section of Marcel today. I suspect that’s among the reasons the Rilke struck me so forcibly this evening.
very good I think this was in someways also Wittgenstein’s project , I’m wrestling with how we sort out the mysteries from the problems and would welcome any suggestions along these lines.
-dmf
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2216928
You might find the first chapter of Foster’s Mystery and Philosophy of real use.