Should we embrace the incomprehensible? | The rabbit hole of your fear

Self Potrait with Fiddling Death — Arnold Bocklin

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.” — Paul Tillich

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“Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.” — Paul Tillich

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“The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of nonbeing. The act of accepting meaninglessness is itself a meaningful act.” — Paul Tillich

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“The presupposition of such literalism is that God is a being, acting in time and space, dwelling in a special place, affecting the course of events and being affected by them like any other being in the universe. Literalism deprives God of his ultimacy and, religiously speaking, of his majesty. It draws him down to the level of that which is not ultimate, the finite and conditional.” — Paul Tillich, The Dynamics of Faith

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“We have a right to ultimate hope, even in view of all other hopes, eve…