In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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 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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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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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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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 life for? Life is for you.
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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What one can be, one must be!
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