It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman. Wilhelm Reich More Quotes by Wilhelm Reich More Quotes From Wilhelm Reich Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe. Wilhelm Reich flow body energy Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology Wilhelm Reich collapse ideology mean I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you. Wilhelm Reich perception integrity thinking Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily. Wilhelm Reich voice heart life If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible. Wilhelm Reich music football sports MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine? Wilhelm Reich peaceful animal men You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license. Wilhelm Reich teacher life children It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. Wilhelm Reich energy feelings thinking The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace. Wilhelm Reich responsibility men war I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you. Wilhelm Reich honesty religious christian Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. Wilhelm Reich sadistic natural life Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples. Wilhelm Reich cripples frenzy fascism Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other. Wilhelm Reich important earth war Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. Wilhelm Reich rigidity The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against the social misery which surrounds him. This characterolgical armoring of the character is the basis of isolation, indigence, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystic longing, sexual misery, and neurotically impotent rebelliousness. Wilhelm Reich responsibility character men Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern. Wilhelm Reich breathing patterns emotional The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common. Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety. Wilhelm Reich cancer anxiety men Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture. Wilhelm Reich animal men culture Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. Wilhelm Reich pioneers two-sides pilots Only you yourself can be your liberator! Wilhelm Reich liberators
