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A review by kcrawfish
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
5.0
A book I will return to again and again.
For a non-fiction to earn a reread, it must strike something that I want to envelope into myself and marry with my heart and mind. Fromm might not be for you, but he certainly was for me.
What is love? Is Love something we treat as a given, as a habit or an experience independent of our will and choice? Mostly, yes. We “fall” in love. We claim to love our family and friends, but doesn’t this thing that enriches our souls and the essence of our lives deserve closer examination?
So what is love then? Love is an art.
Fromm states in his first sentences that love deserves all the care, study, and practice we give towards learning arts of medicine or painting, and I can’t help but agree.
For a non-fiction to earn a reread, it must strike something that I want to envelope into myself and marry with my heart and mind. Fromm might not be for you, but he certainly was for me.
What is love? Is Love something we treat as a given, as a habit or an experience independent of our will and choice? Mostly, yes. We “fall” in love. We claim to love our family and friends, but doesn’t this thing that enriches our souls and the essence of our lives deserve closer examination?
So what is love then? Love is an art.
Fromm states in his first sentences that love deserves all the care, study, and practice we give towards learning arts of medicine or painting, and I can’t help but agree.