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  '' The Art of Loving ''

“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one "falls into" if one is lucky?”  So begins  “The Art of Loving,” a little book by Erich Fromm which is based on the former premise, while as Fromm states, undoubtedly the majority of people today believe in the latter.

I first ran across Fromm’s book which conducting research on the expression

and biology of romantic love.  I was interested to see how love is expressed

across all human cultures.  Research proved what deep down we all know, that

attachment is innate to human kind.  Every culture across the globe expresses

some sort of attachment, some sort of “love” for others. We human beings are

social beings.  I recently heard a beautiful reminder of this point: Humans are

one of the few creations of Allah that cannot survive at birth.  Leave us alone

and we will die.  It’s clear that connecting with others is required for our survival.

   We know this - but what of love?