The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.