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The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

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
Maslow
May
Ignorance
Sign
Confronting
Everything
Ordinary
Daily
Miraculous
Life
Looking
Easily
Neighbors
Sure
Scared
Miracles
Friends
Miracle
Elsewhere
Family
Sacred
Lesson
Lost
Lessons
Flight
Backyard
Found
Travel
Neighbor
Backyards

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