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Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Love and Will

In 1969 Rollo May believed he was living in an age of instant sex where lasting love had vanished. May's book is an argument to put love and sex back together. Has anything changed? Our schools and campuses are bombarded with images of false sexuality and alcohol. Do we care enough to listen to our lives and discover the values that are guiding us? TJS

"In a world where numbers inexorably take over as our means of identification, like flowing lava threatening to suffocate and fossilize all breathing life in its path; in a world where 'normality' is defined as keeping your cool; where sex is so available that the only way to preserve any inner center is to have intercourse without committing yourself--in such a schizoid world, which young people experience more directly since they have not had time to build up the defenses which dull the senses of their elders, it is not surprising that will and love have become increasingly problematic and even, as some people believe, impossible of achievement." (Love and Will, 1969, p. 32)

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