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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.

Abraham Maslow

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue

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