Radicality

A quotation from Thomas Dubay's Seeking Spiritual Direction: How to Grow the Divine Life Within:

Radicality. While we should follow the advice of our confessor or director in our choices of specific practices and penances, and thus avoid attempts beyond our present strength, we ought at the same time to shun half-hearted lukewarmness. Radicality (from the Latin radix, root) means here that we take means suited to the end, that we get to the roots of our problems and deal with them adequately. If we wonder what this means in practice, we need only read the lives of the saints. They are not timid. They do not operate by fractions. Do I?