Message #16345

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Here's an Erich Fromm quote to the effect of what you ended your last post with Steve: "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."



Yes that is exactly what I was saying. I did not realize some one else recognized it in such an expressive way. It often takes a bit of introspection, understanding and observation to look beyond appearances into the depths of those around us. We are often put in the strange position of feeling somehow inferior or that we have somehow erred because someone has found someone else. At least there are those that would have us feel this way. After a while we realize this is just another form of abuse and is like gang behavior in paired ego. We often have to see thru these games people play. It shows a very shallow personality...A need to chop the heads off of others because of a inferiority/superiority complex.