Book: The art of love. Page 4

The individual must develop a priority setting for productive activities, overcoming addiction, narcissism, the tendency to hoarding, and to pomicanje others; people must believe in their own strength, should dare to rely on myself to achieve the goals..

Without love, humanity could not survive a single day.

Equality now means more "uniformity" than "unity" . It is the unification of people who perform the same work, the same fun, read the same Newspapers, the same feel and think the same way.

Advertising formula, which reads: "Not like others", by itself, evidence a burning need to vary, whereas in fact there are no differences

Most people are not even aware of this need to obey. They firmly believe that by following their own tastes and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have come to their opinions through self-reflection, and that their opinions coincide with the majority opinion, is purely coincidental.

If I look like any other, if I don't have thoughts and feelings that would distinguish me from others, if in habits, in clothing and in my mind I follow the standard model - I am safe; I am saved from the horrific experiences of loneliness. Dictatorship achieves this subordination, threats and terror, democracy indoctrination and propaganda.

For human existence is particularly important is the fact that he left the animal Kingdom, from instinctive adaptation of the world, crossed the border of nature - although he never leaves; he is part of nature, but one day, looking up from it, he is not able to return to it.

The second prejudice behind the installation, that in love nothing to learn, is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of the object, and not a problem of ability. People think that love is simple, but to find a worthy object to love or to be loved - that is hard.

If a person experiences love on the principle of possession, it means that he seeks to deprive the object of his "love" of freedom and keep it under control. Such love does not bestow life, and suppresses, destroys, strangles, kills her...

If the individual is able to love creative, he also loves himself; if he loves only others, he cannot love.

Love is an active interest in the life and development of the object of love.

Our entire culture is based on the desire to buy, the idea of mutually beneficial exchange. Happiness of modern man is in the excitement which he feels, looking at shop Windows and buying everything he can afford to buy or for cash or in installments. He (or she) and look at people in this way. For men attractive woman for woman attractive man is the prey, which they are for each other.

Love is unity under condition of preservation of own integrity, individuality. Love is an active power in man, a force that destroys the walls that separate man from his fellowmen, which unites him with others. Love helps him overcome the sense of isolation and loneliness, thus allowing him to remain himself and keep his integrity.

Selfless insanity on each other - ... no proof of the power of love, and a testimony to the immensity of loneliness that preceded it.