Occupation: Psychologist Birth: April 1, 1908 Death: June 8, 1970
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs..
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?.
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation..
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but mos….
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism..
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and clos….
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 unaid….
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which m….
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb..
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be….
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unma….
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth..
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself..
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..
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening..
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….
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection,….
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perc….
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves..
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby,….
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, ach….