Excerpts from The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm ... that virtue and power are the same. Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of a human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as the result of a compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primary giving, not receiving.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:12:54 +0000
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