“When I am afraid I am a house divided against itself. So more than anything else I want to be delivered from fear, for fear is alien to my own best interest or, to put it positively, I want to give myself generously, magnanimously, freely—out of love. I want to be able to take risks—to express myself, to welcome and embrace the future… I want union with all of life and existence.”
–Gordon Cosby, as quoted in Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Cry Pain, Cry Hope: Thresholds to Purpose (1987), p. 136
