Erich Fromm Quotes

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

I believe our Heavenly Father’s everlasting purpose for His children is generally achieved by the small and simple things we do for one another. At the heart of the English word ‘atonement’ is the word ‘one.’ If all mankind understood this, there would never be anyone with whom we would not be concerned, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, or social or economic standing. We would strive to emulate the Savior and would never be unkind, indifferent, disrespectful, or insensitive to others.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.