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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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