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In the spiritual life there is no such thing as failure. We may fail, we may descend, we may have the so-called outer experience of failure. But this is not the real failure. The real failure is only when we give up and say: “This is an impossible task; no matter how many times I try, I fail.” If I entertain this wrong feeling and give up, then I have accepted failure and become failure itself. I shall fail only when I give up — never, never before!