Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance. — Alexander Lowen Acceptance Copy Share Image
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.” — Alexander Lowen 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
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
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
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
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
Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life,… — Alexander Lowen Automobile Copy Share Image
Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If… — Alexander Lowen Alive Copy Share Image
Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
“Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have… — Alexander Lowen Battle wounds Copy Share Image
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who… — Alexander Lowen Adults Copy Share Image
The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense… — Alexander Lowen Animal Copy Share Image
A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of… — Alexander Lowen 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
