Love for myself is connected deeply to the love of any other being for an individual’s love cannot be experienced without true humility, courage, faith, and discipline. To Fromm, “Love is union under the condition of preserving one’s integrity".” Love is all the expressions and manifestations of what is alive in us. He argues against the western interpretations and ideals of love, for as social creatures, we experience anxiety from the separateness that has been a result of what we’ve been fed about love from our capitalist, conformist, and divided culture. Summary - quotes directly from the book and paraphrasedįromm speaks of the art of loving in the least technical voice - which makes this a very easy and sometimes humorous read - not to mention incredibly insightful.
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