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“Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical....”
“When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense of it in terms of the life of his children. But one is bound to fail within oneself and for the c...”
“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 "cen...”
“While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.”
“Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.”
“This experience of being loved by mother is a passive one. There is nothing I have to do in order to be loved—mother's love is unconditional. All I have to do is to be—to be her child. Mother's lov...”
“Unconditional love corresponds to one of the deepest longings, not only of the child, but of every human being; on the other hand, to be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, alway...”
“The polarity between the male and female principles exists also within each man and each woman. Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also ...”
“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...”
“The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the go...”
“To a certain degree,We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning,love, peace and joy,and knowledge, wealth and power…”
“Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliteration of reason;psychologically, it is theerosion of ambition.”
“By allowing the group of people whom we call “our loved ones” to continually expand, we realize that this group is actually limitless. It is only narrow-mindedness and a superficial convention that...”
“Whatever yerz’re lookin’ for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight’ve never lost it!”
“How to live spiritually:- Love and appreciate yourself- Be honest with yourself- Express yourself truthfully- Know you are abundance- Remember to use humor- Don’t forget to choose”
“Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way h...”
