Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the potential for self-determination and growth in every moment.
Abraham Maslow's quote suggests that individuals hold within themselves the power to shape their own future. It highlights the idea that the present moment is rich with possibilities and that personal growth and transformation are always attainable, driven by one's thoughts, actions, and choices.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
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