Art of Loving
Erich FrommArt of Loving Gönderileri
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Each author treats his subject from the broad perspective of the world community, not from the Judaeo-Christian, Western or Eastern viewpoint alone.
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge which to overcome makes us stronger, rather than as unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
What matters in relation to love is the faith in one's own love; in its ability to produce love in others, and in its reliability.
Unless we have faith in the persistence of our self, our feeling of identity is threatened and we become dependent on other people whose approval then becomes the basis for our feeling of identity.
The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility.
If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing; the important, as well as the unimportant things assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.
Real conflicts between two people, those which do not serve to cover up or to project, but which are experienced on the deep level of inner reality to which they belong, are not destructive... Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence. Only in this "central experience" is human reality, only here is aliveness.
Mother can give life, and she can take life. She is the one to revive, and the one to destroy; she can do miracles of love -- and nobody can hurt more than she.
Referring to our previous discussion of the mother-centered personality, the following example for this type of neurotic love relation to be found frequently today deals with men who in their emotional development have remained stuck in an infantile attachment to mother. These are men who have never been weaned as it were from mother. These men
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions... The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones - and the eternally disappointed ones.
The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were on become separate.
Unconditional love corresponds to one of the deepest longings.
This idea [of polarity in the nature] is beautifully expressed by the great Muslim poet and mystic, Rumi.