As I Actualize, I Uncover.

What Has To Be Given Up Is Not The I, As Most Mystics Suppose: This I Is Indispensable For Any Relationship, Including The Highest, Which Always Presupposes An I And You.

The Historical Religions Have The Tendency To Become Ends In Themselves, And, As It Were, To Put Themselves In God's Place, And, In Fact, There Is Nothing That Is So Apt To Obscure God's Face As A Religion.

What Has To Be Given Up Is Not The I, But That Drive For Self-affirmation Which Impels Man To Flee From The Unreliable, Unsolid, Unlasting, Unpredictable, Dangerous World Of Relation Into The Having Of Things.

The Perfection Of Any Matter, The Highest Or The Lowest, Touches On The Divine.

For Sin Is Just This, What Man Cannot By Its Very Nature Do With His Whole Being; It Is Possible To Silence The Conflict In The Soul, But It Is Not Possible To Uproot It