If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

We are gods with anuses.