The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability …

Thomas Merton
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The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). Seeds
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