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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?

Abraham Maslow

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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
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
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth

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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