Erich Fromm has become my teacher and my mentor. I can't stop sharing his ideas among my friends. How come his books & philosophy are not taught in schools and universities?!

I enjoy him being a real global thinker. I enjoy how he puts the Human Being into the center of his studies - a weak, consumptive, afraid to love Human Being longing to get out to a better being. I enjoy him being a Christian yet appreciating and analyzing other religions and putting God into the middle of his philosophies.  I'm amazed how  simply he put all the complex philosophical findings and tough questions - simple, easy, understandable and enjoyable.

Here are some quotes which i particularly love, and have them printed out as my road-maps:

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''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.''

''Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.''

''If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.''

''Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.''

''...mature love says: ''I need you, because I love you.''

''In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.''

(''The Art of Loving'')

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Each man is entitled with ''freedom to create and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine...'' 

This can be achieved if the man is driven by purpose, not merely by consumption, high purpose in life, by his knowledge that his existence should bring contribution. 

''If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?''

''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.''

''Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.''

(''The Art of Being'')