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.
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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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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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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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