Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me.
Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760) Jewish mystic and healer,
regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism
“This quote moves me so deeply because it’s perplexing and I think the most powerful things are those things that make us have to stretch ourselves to really understand what is being said. This is an invitation to me is to remember that we are constantly transforming and changing and increasing our capacities. We are incapable of knowing who’s going to be on the other side of the courageous action, the risk, the leap that we’re asked to take in our lives. This quote invites me to do the things that are scary, that challenge me to know if I blunder, if I fall, if it’s really difficult, will be a bigger me on the other side than the me who takes the first step.”
Kristi Nelson, author of Wake Up Grateful:
The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted