"This experience of being loved by mother is a passive one. There is nothing I have to do in order to be loved— mother's love is unconditional. All I have to do is to be— to be her child. Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

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Erich Fromm was a German-born social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School. Born in Frankfurt in 1900, he developed influential ideas on freedom, authority, and human needs in modern society. He died in Muralto, Switzerland, on 1980-03-18.

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