Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance. — Alexander Lowen Acceptance Copy Share Image
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely. — Alexander Lowen Faces Copy Share Image
Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and… — Alexander Lowen Animal Copy Share Image
Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body. — Alexander Lowen Attitude Copy Share Image
A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy. — Alexander Lowen Deeds Copy Share Image
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible… — Alexander Lowen Bounds Copy Share Image
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they… — Alexander Lowen Happiness Copy Share Image
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may… — Alexander Lowen Children Copy Share Image
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may… — Alexander Lowen Dreams Copy Share Image
The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated –… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The… — Alexander Lowen Children Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the… — Alexander Lowen Abdomen Copy Share Image
Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth,… — Alexander Lowen Birth Copy Share Image
“It is a common belief that we breathe with our lungs alone, but in point of fact, the work of breathing is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“As adults, we have many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Since the experience is different for each individual, the tension will reflect that experience. In some persons the whole lower half of… — Alexander Lowen Genital Copy Share Image
“We must realize that we are all, like Dr. Faust, ready to accept the devil's inducements. The devil is in each one… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
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