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I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
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Every week (or close to it) this project gives me a reason to sit and reflect, or sometimes maybe to consider how redundant my thoughts are. How it affects me really depends on my mood, which when I think about it, scares the hell out of me.
This could easily be a trite entry based in smug self-talk or righteous new-age blather about old knowledge that is somehow new today, but I won’t bother. Merton’s quote says enough.