Journal Assignment: The works of Erich Fromm are filled with inspiring and provocative thoughts, such as the one above. If you need a catalyst for some introspection and reflection, use your journal to write something in response to the quote above, or pick one from the collection of quotes from Fromm, below. You might ask yourself: "What am I afraid of losing? What would I be if I lost this thing (or these things) that seem so important?" What if a forest fire was approaching your home, and you had to walk out and leave everything? Who would you be if it all turned to ashes? What would be left?
Poet Antonio Machado writes that "What the poet seeks is the deep YOU." What is the 'deep you'?
Spend a few minutes writing a poem or passage which describes what would be left if you lost everything? Write Now! GO!
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More wisdom from Erich Fromm:
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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― Erich Fromm, The Art of Being
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
― Erich Fromm
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― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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― Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man, Its Genius for Good and Evil
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― Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis And Religion
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― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
― Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man, Its Genius for Good and Evil
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
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― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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― Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man, Its Genius for Good and Evil
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― Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
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Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?”
― Erich Fromm
― Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
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