“Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.”

"Where Epics Fail: Aphorisms on Art, Morality & Spirit" (2018)

Source: Final Analysis (1990), p. 94

As quoted in Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone (1981) by Lizzie James writing for Creem Magazine http://archives.waiting-forthe-sun.net/Pages/Interviews/JimInterviews/TenYearsGone.html
Context: People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

General Survey
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)
Context: Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i. e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

On the 2011 Libyan protests, as quoted in EU Observer (21 February 2011) http://euobserver.com/9/31842
2011

Source: "China’s Human Harvest and Illegal Organ Trade: Publish or Perish?" https://bitterwinter.org/a-universal-declaration-on-combating-and-preventing-forced-organ-harvesting/