Well, actually what Rilke says is:
"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."
So ...
She has suffered from having one unanswered, paramount question in her heart for a long time which, after 40 years, has finally been answered. Unfortunately she soon found out there is a natural followup question to her first which is even more pressing now that the first has been answered so promisingly.
When she saw these words of Rilke something in her reached out to his advice. Because she glimpsed, through him, that there might be a "secret" embedded in her question; a secret that could turn suffering into celebration through the application of LOVE.
So ...
Because she is growing weary of her suffering she decided to focus her LOVE on her unsolved question in her heart.
And ..
What she is discovering is her question is slowly and delightfully transforming into the feeling she has a perfectly loving surprise ahead of her.
Further to this ...
She imagines this perfectly loving surprise will be so because it will be the true (and therefore the best possible) answer to her question - whether it be "yea" or "nay".
Does this make sense?
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NOTE: After focussing more love on her question in the wee hours of the morning (while sitting out on a deck in the mid-summer heat listening to the murmur of a creek and the night sounds all around her) she heard her question saying to her, "If you learn to love me you will no longer be struggling for the answer. If you stop struggling for the answer you will learn to simply 'wait and see'. And, in this seeing you will be astonished."
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