“The first duty of love is to listen.”
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
