"Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels."

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Source : Alexander Lowen (1995). “Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life”, p.112, Penguin

Alexander Lowen

#Heart Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Self Quotes

“Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.”
“The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.”
“If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.”
“In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?”
“If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.”
“I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing.”
“Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?”
“I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel... That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.”

Source : Song: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, 2012

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