Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

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The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

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We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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