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« Well-being means being totally born, actually becoming what you are potentially. It also means possessing the full capacity to experience joy and pain, or, to express it even better, to awaken from that half-drowsiness in which the average man lives, and to finally attain the total awakening. It also means being creative. That is, to react and respond to myself, to others, to all the things that exist. To react and respond as the total man that I am, to the reality of each and every thing as they are in themselves »
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Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis
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« Well-being, in the end, means letting go of your personal ego, giving up greed. Stop continuing to conserve and increase the Ego. It means to be, and to experience oneself in the act of being and not in that of having, piling, coveting, using. »
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Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis |
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Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis
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« Method of "teaching": that of Zen is to accumulate the disciple. The koan forbids any intellectual escape. The koan looks like a barrier that prevents any possible leakage. »
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Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis |
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Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis
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