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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.

Abraham Maslow

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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Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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
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
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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
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
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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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
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

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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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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