'Infantile love follows the principle:
I love because I am loved.
Mature love follows the principle:
I am loved because I love.
Immature Love says
'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says:
'I need you because I love you.'
The inability to act spontaneously,
to express what one genuinely feels and thinks,
and the resulting necessity to present a pseudo self to others and oneself,
are the root of the feeling of inferiority and weakness.
Whether or not we are aware of it,
there is nothing of which we are more ashamed
than of not being ourselves,
and there is nothing that
gives us greater pride and happiness than to think,
to feel, and to say what is ours…
If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity
and thus relates himself to the world,
he ceases to be an isolated atom;
he and the world become part of one structuralized whole.
Love is an act of faith.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer
to the problem of human existence.
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Modern man lives under the illusion that
he know what he wants,
while he actually wants what he
is supposed to want.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence
is a problem which he has to solve.
Most people die before they are fully born.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone
is the condition for the ability to love.
Creativity requires the courage
to let go of certainities.
A dream is a microscope through which
we look at the hidden occurrences
in our suol.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have
who then am I?
There can be no real freedom
without the freedom to fail.
The only truly affluent are
those who do not want more then they have.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee,
to give oneself completely in the hope that
our love will produce love in the loved person.
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning.
Uncertainty is the very condition
to impel man to unfold his powers.
That millions of people share the same forms of
mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Not he who has much is rich,
but he who gives much.
Only a person who has faith in himself
can be faithful to others.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves.
The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
The psychic task which a person can and
must set for himself is not to feel secure,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
If a person loves only one other person and
is indifferent to all others,
his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,
or an enlarged egotism.
The mature response
to the problem of existence is love.
Giving is more joyous than receiving,
not because it is a deprivation,
but because in the act of giving
lies the expression of my aliveness.
In love the paradox occurs
that two beings become one
and yet remain two.
I love because I am loved.
Mature love follows the principle:
I am loved because I love.
Immature Love says
'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says:
'I need you because I love you.'
The inability to act spontaneously,
to express what one genuinely feels and thinks,
and the resulting necessity to present a pseudo self to others and oneself,
are the root of the feeling of inferiority and weakness.
Whether or not we are aware of it,
there is nothing of which we are more ashamed
than of not being ourselves,
and there is nothing that
gives us greater pride and happiness than to think,
to feel, and to say what is ours…
If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity
and thus relates himself to the world,
he ceases to be an isolated atom;
he and the world become part of one structuralized whole.
Love is an act of faith.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer
to the problem of human existence.
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Modern man lives under the illusion that
he know what he wants,
while he actually wants what he
is supposed to want.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence
is a problem which he has to solve.
Most people die before they are fully born.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone
is the condition for the ability to love.
Creativity requires the courage
to let go of certainities.
A dream is a microscope through which
we look at the hidden occurrences
in our suol.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have
who then am I?
There can be no real freedom
without the freedom to fail.
The only truly affluent are
those who do not want more then they have.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee,
to give oneself completely in the hope that
our love will produce love in the loved person.
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning.
Uncertainty is the very condition
to impel man to unfold his powers.
That millions of people share the same forms of
mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Not he who has much is rich,
but he who gives much.
Only a person who has faith in himself
can be faithful to others.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves.
The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
The psychic task which a person can and
must set for himself is not to feel secure,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
If a person loves only one other person and
is indifferent to all others,
his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,
or an enlarged egotism.
The mature response
to the problem of existence is love.
Giving is more joyous than receiving,
not because it is a deprivation,
but because in the act of giving
lies the expression of my aliveness.
In love the paradox occurs
that two beings become one
and yet remain two.
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