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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

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
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
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
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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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
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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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
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
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
The 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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Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
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
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try

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