“…to speak of love…means to speak of the ultimate and real need in every human being. That this need has been obscured does not mean that it does not exist. To analyze the nature of love is to discover its general absence today and to criticize the social conditions which are responsible for this absence. To have faith in the possibility of love as a social and not only exceptional-individual phenomenon, is a rational faith based on the insight into the very natue of man.”
Erich Fromm – The Art Of Loving
jruthkelly
Wonderful insights from a wonderful man. Reading him means you are already changing.
I’m currently reading his “The Dogma of Christ.”
By: Pierre on August 14, 2009
at 5:30 pm
Yes, it does. His insights bring solid soulful intellligence to a sadly obscured but essential force.
Hadn’t heard of that book. I’m going to have to get it now.
Welcome to a slice of my world here…
By: jruthkelly on August 14, 2009
at 5:41 pm