We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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