“There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits—two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 54
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