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.
The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.
Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to preserve white supremacy. So it gave power - the right to kill - to any white claiming to defend the honor of white women.
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with.
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