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 MASLOWDispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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