Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

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

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.