ArtistaScar's Fuzzy and Not so Fuzzy Thoughts

I recently finished reading "The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm. I figured the methods and ideas I was living by weren't working, so I wanted to learn some new ones. Upon reading, I did take away a few good principles and thoughts:

• Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a 'standing in' not a 'falling for."

• Infantile love follows the principle 'I love because I am loved'

  Mature love follows the principle 'I am loved because I love'

  Immature love says 'I love you because I need you'

  Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'

• While one is consciously afraid of not being loved, the real, though usually unconscious fear is that of loving.