Davis County Ex-Mormon meetup Sunday Sept 07, 2025, 2:30 PM

### Escape from Freedom Meetup Invitation 2:30 PM Love, Union, Integrity - The healthy way of meeting our need to belong stated by Erich Fromm. Mankind “ … is aware of his aloneness and separateness, of his powerlessness and ignorance, of the accidentalness of his birth and of his death. He could not face this state of being for a second if he could not find new ties with his fellow man … There is only one passion which satisfies man’s need to unite himself with the world and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality, and this is love. Love is union with somebody, or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self. It is an experience of sharing, of communion, which permits the full unfolding of one’s own inner activity. … Love is in the experience of human solidarity with our fellow creatures, it is in the erotic love of man and woman, in the love of the mother for her child, and also in the love for oneself as a human being; it is in the … experience of union. In the act of loving, I am one with All, and yet I am myself, a unique, separate, limited, mortal human being.”[1]

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[1] Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: and Other Essays, 1981, 2