“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’”
— Erich Fromm: /The Art of Loving/ (New York: Harper and Row, 1989) p.37
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise” — Erich Fromm
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
— Erich Fromm: /The Art of Loving/ (New York: Bantam, 1963) p.47
Psalmody calms the passions and awakens the nous – Evagrios the Solitary
Pray gently and calmly, sing with understanding and rhythm; then you will soar like a young eagle high in the heavens. Psalmody calms the passions and curbs the uncontrolled impulses in the body; and prayer enables the [nous] to activate its own energy.
— /Philokalia/ Evagrios the Solitary: 153 Texts on Prayer: 82-83
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