Mona

“And it is upon our ability to look honestly upon our differences, to see them as creative rather than divisive, that our future success may lie.”
― Audre Lorde, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

“To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.”
― Vandana Shiva, Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

“But in many individuals in whom separateness is not relieved in other ways, the search for the sexual orgasm assumes a function which makes it not very different from alcoholism and drug addiction. It becomes a desperate attempt to escape the anxiety engendered by separateness, and it results in an ever-increasing sense of separateness, since the sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. All”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving