“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’”
“Mature love says: I need you because I love you.” — Erich Fromm
— Erich Fromm: /The Art of Loving/ (New York: Harper and Row, 1989) p.37
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’”
“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.”
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.