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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
