“There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves/ A deeper fulfilment in commitment/ A nobler life in letting ourselves go/ a truer self in not clinging on to my self!”

—  Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 44.
Joy: Share it! (2018)

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