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Sunday September 16, 2018

One of the greatest obstacles to your growth is the fear of making a fool of yourself.  Any real step forward implies the risk of failure.  And the really important steps imply the risk of complete failure.

—Thomas Merton
  American Trappist monk and writer (1915-1968)

Source: blog entry on Merton’s Last Days in the West




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