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The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
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.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
