The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.