If any one would save one’s life, one must lose it.  From now on,…everybody stands on his own two feet. If you forget anything else that is said, I suggest you remember this for the future: From now on, everyone stands on his own feet.-

Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Thomas Merton was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion.