The common element in both submission and domination is the symbiotic nature of relatedness. Both persons involved have lost their integrity and freedom; they live on each other and from each other, s...
The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.
The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love—is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of guilt and anxiety.
The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man’s t...
Solo l'amore disinteressato è un sentimento maturo, completo.
Selbst nach der Geburt unterscheidet sich das Kind kaum von dem, was es vor der Geburt war; es kann noch keinen Gegenstand erkennen, es ist sich seiner selbst und der Welt als etwas außerhalb von ihm...
Se amassi veramente una persona, amerei il mondo, amerei la vita. Se posso dire a un altro ti amo, devo essere in grado di dire, amo tutti in te, amo il mondo attraverso te, amo in te anche me stesso.
Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this...
Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this 'centr...
La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorità, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.
It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group.
In the sphere of material things giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the higher power of nature.
Equality today means sameness, rather than oneness. It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the s...
Die Idee, dass man die Wahrheit auf dem Weg des Denkens finden könne, führt nicht nur zum Dogma, sondern auch zur Wissenschaft.
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
A man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by ambition, or greed for money. In all these cases the person is the slave of a passion, and his act...
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a li...
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.