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A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is.

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

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