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“The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assu...”
“What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.”
“People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.”
“The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily..”
“The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. The absolute failure to achieve this aim means insanity, because the panic of complete...”
“Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.”
“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”
“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.”
“Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself; he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a sepa...”
“Love is a power which produces love.”
“Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness".”
“In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine....”
