This final chapter summarizes the arguments so far and returns to the question of meaning. The “crisis of meaning” originates from the understanding of meaning as something extant. The search for meaning misses meaning when it demands immediacy or instantaneity. The demand for instantaneity is rooted in what Heidegger called “calculative thinking,” which is characteristic of modern technology and science. Calculative thinking identifies things with objects of representation and seeks “the mathematical” in them, i.e., aspects which can be determined prior to encountering the thing. But this pre-determination also skips the meaningful unfolding of the thing. Here, meaning is reconstrued as the way in which things or events take time to unfold themselves, which calls for patience on our part. This means a bilateral availability between beings and us, rather than their unilateral availability for us. The meaning of “waiting” changes accordingly. Rather than ordering possibilities as if they were already actual, waiting protects possibilities as possibilities in an attentive receptivity.