يهم أن نعرف أيَّ نوعٍ من الوحدة نتحدث عنه عندما نتحدث عن الحب: هل نشير إلى الحب كحلٍّ ناضج لمشكلة الوجود؟ أم أننا نتكلم عن تلك الأشكال غير الناضجة للحب التي يمكن أن تُسمى وحدة تكافلية؟
لقد أصبح الكلام إدمانا: انا اتكلم إذا أنا موجود, أنا اتكلم إذا أنا لست نكرة, أنا أتكلم إذا لدي ماض, وعمل, وأسرة, وبحديثي عن كل ماسبق فإني أؤكد على ذاتي.
حب جسد الأنسان ليس تحققاً او انجازاً .. فالحيوانات تحب صغارها وتُعنى بها .. والشخص العاجز يحب سيده حيث ان حياته تتوقف عليه .. ان الطفل يحب والديه حيث انه يحتاج اليهما .. وفي حب اولئك الذين لايفيدون في...
تعتمد قوة موقع الإنسان في الحياة على درجة كفاءة إدراكه للواقع, وكلما نقصت كفائته يزداد تشوشه وبالتالي يتنامى شعوره بعدم الأمان, فيصبح بحاجة إلى أوهام يتكئ عليها ليجد الامان الذي ينشده. وكلما ازدادت كف...
إننا لا ننكر أن الإنسانية وسط هذا الضجيج والعجيج لا تعدم نفراً من العقلاء بنادون بعقد معاهدات الصلح ونشر ألوية السلام فى ربوع العالم بأسره. غير أن قصارى ما يبذله هؤلاء العقلاء من جهد لا يعدو أن يكون ك...
Наиболее важная сфера давания это однако не сфера материальных вещей, а специфически человеческая сфера. Что один человек может дать другому. Он дает себя, самое драгоценное из того, что имеет, он дае...
Looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.
You do many things at once; you read, listen to the radio, talk, smoke, eat, drink. You are the consumer with the open mouth, eager and ready to swallow everything—pictures, liquor, knowledge. This la...
Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.
Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.
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...
Where the individual feels free and responsible for his own fate, or among minorities striving for freedom and independence, humanistic religious experience develops. The history of religion gives amp...
When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open....
Well-being is the state of having arrived at the full development of reason: reason not in the sense of a merely intellectual judgment, but in that of grasping truth by letting things be (to use Heide...
We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a th...
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith...
There is only one passion which satisfies man’s need to unite himself with the world, and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality, and this is love. Love is union with someb...
Non esiste né bene né male se non c'è la libertà di disobbedire.
Meister Eckhart on this topic: If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving y...
Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's integrity, one's individuality; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others...