Within the horizon of this [western] myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression. (Sam Keen)

Within the horizon of this [western] myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

Sam Keen

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