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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.

Abraham Maslow

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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
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

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