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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWBe independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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