"man truly becomes himself when body and soul find themselves in intimate unity; the challenge of eros can be said to be truly overcome when this unification is successful. If man aspires to be only spirit and wants to reject the flesh as a merely animalistic inheritance, then spirit and body lose their dignity. And if, on the other hand, he denies the spirit and therefore considers matter, the body, as an exclusive reality, equally loses its greatness."
Soul and body

January 1, 1970

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