Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

During the episode, the guest recounted that reading the book brought him to tears and led him to recognize a shift in his mother's love from unconditional to conditional. He described the experience as profoundly emotional, indicating the title’s strong personal resonance.

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Episode: Long Distance and Lost

The book had a strong emotional impact on him, causing him to cry several times, and made him realize that his mother's love had shifted from unconditional to conditional.

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I read this book from Eric Fromm recently called The Art of Loving. Just reading that book made me cry so many times. I came to a realization recently that my mother was my source of unconditional love. And then she turned and became my source of conditional love.

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Philosophize This!

Erich Fromm argued that love is a skill and an art that requires effort, commitment, and discipline, as opposed to a passive feeling that just happens. He also said that we need to learn to love ourselves before we can truly love others.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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Erich Fromm argued that love is a skill and an art that requires effort, commitment, and discipline, as opposed to a passive feeling that just happens. He also said that we need to learn to love ourselves before we can truly love others.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love is not a thing, it's a faculty.

Love is not an object, it's a faculty.

Love is not a noun, love is a verb.

Love is an art, just as living is an art.

domination springs from impotence and in turn reinforces it. For if an individual can force somebody else to serve him, his own need to be productive is increasingly paralyzed.

Love, in principle, is indivisible as far as the connection between objects and one's own self are concerned.

the capacity to love demands a state of intensity, awareness, enhanced vitality, which can only be the result of a productive and active orientation in many other spheres of life.

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The Daily Stoic

The book was mentioned in relation to the concept of love as a skill requiring practice, dedication, and effort, rather than merely a fleeting emotion. The idea of tending to oneself as a form of self-love was connected to this concept.

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have you read the art of loving and not to bring up Eric from again

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