People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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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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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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