Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go …

- Alexander Lowen

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing i…

- Alexander Lowen

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 …

- Alexander Lowen

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within…

- Alexander Lowen

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

- Alexander Lowen

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, w…

- Alexander Lowen

It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and ma…

- Alexander Lowen

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

- Alexander Lowen

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

- Alexander Lowen