Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOWObviously 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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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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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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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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