“Sex is the most intense manifestation of the living process. By controlling sex one controls life. We do not want to stop the life process; what we want is for it to run smoothly… like a machine. We can play with sex in the most sensual ways, but we are scared to death to explode in an orgasm of joy and ecstasy. Reich called this fear “orgasm anxiety.” In his view and mine it underlies all neurotic behavior.” From Fear of Life by Alexander Lowen, M.D.

"Love is a sharing, not a giving. A lover shares himself fully with the loved person. This will include both the sharing of joy and of sorrow. Since a pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled, the sharing of joy heightens that feeling, which can become ecstasy in the sexual embrace. The sharing of sorrow halves its pain. The joy one shares stems from the surrender to the body, not form the surrender to the other." -Alexander Lowen, M.D., Joy

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest pholosophy." Friedrich Nietzsche.

"To shorten analytic treatment is a justifiable wish, and its fulfillment, as we shall learn, is being attempted along various lines. Unfortunately, it is opposed by a very important factor, namely the slowness with which deep changes in the mind are accomplished." Sigmund Freud

"The goal of bioenergetics is to help people regain their primary nature, which is a condition of being free, the state of being graceful, and the quality of being beautiful. Freedom, grace and beauty are the natural attributes of every animal organism. Freedom is the absence of inner restraint to the flow of feeling, grace is the expression of the flow of movement, while beauty is a manifestation of the inner harmony such a flow engenders. They denote a healthy body and also, therefore, a healthy mind." - Alexander Lowen, M.D.