Discovering Tillich

You know this experience, sometimes when you are browsing in a bookshop you come across a book with a wonderful title. This happened to me as a  student when I saw a book with this title:

“The courage to be ”

by Paul Tillich

I was going through a hard time and just the title alone helped me as no one I knew had ever said it takes courage to live well.So I bought this book and dipped in. I found it interesting and thoughtful.Sometimes I would just look at the front cover and repeat the title.I had discovered mantra meditation.in a sense.

One morning I was listening to a radio programme about poetry in England and tidying up. Suddenly my old battered copy  of “The Courage to Be” fell out of a shelf and into my hand.And I said, thank you. Because I had lost this companion and now it’s restored…