INTRODUCTION
"I offer this work in praise of faith to all those
who have conveyed healing faith to me and others." Paramadvaiti
Erich Fromm: The Scientist of Love
“As I began to shift my attention more and more to what struck me as truly central in my work, that is, to the relationship of one human being to another and to the specifically human emotions that are rooted not in instinct but rath
er in man’s existence as a human being, I began to see, then I began truly to understand; and the person I was analyzing could understand what it was I was saying, too. (1974b)”
“Love has no purpose, though many people might say: Of course it does! It is love, they say, that enables us to satisfy our sexual needs, marry, have children and live a normal, middle-class life. And that is why love is so rare these days, love without goals, love in which the only thing of importance is the act of loving itself. In this kind of love it is being and not consuming that plays the key role. It is human self-expression, the full play of our human capacities. (1974b „In the Name of Life. A Portrait Through Dialogue“, in: E. Fromm, For the Love of Life, ed. by Hans Jürgen Schultz, New York: The Free Press 1986, pp. 88-116.)”
