...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

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

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

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

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.

Living safely is dangerous.