Alexander Lowen Quotes

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• Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.
• A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we…
• Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel…
• The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with…
• Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has…
• Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her…
• 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 not a psychic…
• A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he…
• The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in…
• The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body…
• Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in…
• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to…
• It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is…
• We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we…
• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If…
• As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about…
• Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.
• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
• Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so…
• I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

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