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Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Abraham Harold Maslow
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The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.
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I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
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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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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
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We do what we are and we are what we do.
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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.
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Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.
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An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
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Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?
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Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
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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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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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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.
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