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Since every day a little of our life is taken from us—since we are dying every day—the final hour when we cease to exist does not of itself bring death; it merely completes the death process.

— Paul Tillich The Courage To Be (1952)

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Where the New Reality appears, one feels united with God, the ground and meaning of one’s existence.

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Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.

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He who loves God is also able to accept life and to love it.

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In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.

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