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I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

Meg Tilly

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You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

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.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

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

Paul Tillich

Being

Neurosis

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.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Courage

Being

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.