Indeed the alienated person finds it almost impossible to remain by himself, because he is seized by the panic of experiencing nothingness.
In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.
I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If
Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or ea...
As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power.
Aliveness always makes a beautiful.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as a completely separate entity, two courses re-open to him since he ha...
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one’s capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a standing in, not a falling for.
If two people who have been strangers, as all of us are, suddenly let the wall between them break down, and feel close, feel one, this moment of oneness is one of the most exhilarating, most exciting...
Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine,...
Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu können.
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an a...
But any explanation which analyzes one sector to the exclusion of all others is unbalanced, and thus wrong. The socio-economic, spiritual and psychological explanations look at the same phenomena from...
As long as we can think of other alternatives, we are not lost; as long as we can consult together and plan together, we can hope. But, indeed, the shadows are lengthening; the voices of insanity are...
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim i...
All this kind of relationship amounts to is the well‑oiled relationship between two persons who remain strangers all their lives, who never arrive at a central relationship, but who treat each other w...
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Sólo existe certeza con respecto al pasado, y con respecto al futuro, la certeza de la muerte.