Caligo

“The effort made to suppress sex would be difficult to understand if it were for the sake of sex as such. Not sex, however, but the breaking of human will is the reason for vilifying sex. A great number of the so-called primitive societies have no sex taboo whatever. Since they function without exploitation and domination, they do not have to break the individual’s will. They can afford not to stigmatize sex and to enjoy the pleasure of sexual relations without guilt feelings. Most remarkable in these societies is that this sexual freedom does not lead to sexual greed; that after a period of relatively transient sexual relations couples find each other; that they then have no desire to swap partners, but are also free to separate when love has gone. For these not-property-oriented groups sexual enjoyment is an expression of being, not the result of sexual possessiveness.”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be?

“The difference between being and having is not essentially that between East and West. The difference is rather between a society centered around persons and one centered around things.”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be?

“I ate a pickle and now I feel a lot better”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“Living structures can be only if they become; they can exist only if they change. Change and growth are inherent qualities of the life process.”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be?