What one can be, one must be!
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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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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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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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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