If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to … - Ernest Becker

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Ernest Becker

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.

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Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

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Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

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Love is the problem of an animal.

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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

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