The Art of Being Audiobook (Free)

This classic work by psychologist and social philosopher Eric Fromm builds upon his previous popular book, To Have or to Be? In The Artwork of Being, Fromm shows us in order to avoid the tantalizing illusions of our consumer-driven globe by learning to function as a complete person from a state of internal completeness or becoming. The changeover from an identity of having to being creates circumstances of enlightened psychological and spiritual joy.

How can we realize and actualize like, reason, and meaningful, about The Art to be productive function? Fromm’s proposed approach to life, based on genuine self-awareness, comes only through honest self-analysis. Wisely, he warns of the pitfalls of our attaining enlightenment without effort, or believing that life could be lived without pain. The tantalizing “spiritual smorgasbord” offered by our consumer-oriented world, Fromm maintains, only feeds our illusions of “easy understanding.” Confronting the psycho-gurus who preach these shortcuts to enlightenment, Fromm gives another method to self-awareness and well-being, one predicated on psychoanalysis and self-awareness through meditation. By learning to be focused in the self, the individual is normally less swayed from the countless stresses and dissatisfactions of the culture of consumerism.

The Art to be is one of Fromm’s most significant works.