Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.