Alexander Lowen Quotes About Ego

Quotes about: Ego

• As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.

  Alexander Lowen

  Ocean, Animal, Space

• Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

  Alexander Lowen

  Heart, Love Is, Roots

  Alexander Lowen (1995). “Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life”, p.112, Penguin

• The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

  Alexander Lowen

  Powerful, Men, Goal

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

• If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

  Alexander Lowen

  Ego, Ifs

  Alexander Lowen (1978). “The Language of the Body”

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