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Outer Connection

Outer Connection involves the emergence of authentic, resonant, and compassionate relationships with other people, animals, natural systems, the cosmos, and even material artifacts of human culture. These connections occur through shared presence within the Fabric of Consciousness, and are strengthened by empathy, attunement, and mutual recognition.

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Notes

In To Have or To Be Erich Fromm distinguishes two aspects of his Being Mode, one is "aliveness and authentic relatedness to the world" and the other refers to "the true nature, the true reality, of a person or a thing." (p. 24). The former is Outer Connection. The latter is Inner Connection

Quotes

"I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, persistent feelings had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings, owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them....

For me, being transparently open is far more rewarding than being defensive. This is difficult to achieve, even partially, but enormously enriching to a relationship.

It is necessary for me to stay close to the earthiness of real experience. I cannot live my life in abstractions. So real relationships with persons, hands dirtied in the soil, observing the budding of a flower, or viewing the sunset,are necessary to my life. At least one foot must be in the soil of reality."[1]

  1. Rogers, Carl. A Way of Being. Houghton Mifflin, 1980.