The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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