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We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
Abraham Maslow
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Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
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Abraham Harold Maslow
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In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.
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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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When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.
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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
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The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?
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