The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within β and make the point: This can be done.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of self-discovery and experiencing life to find its true meaning.
Abraham Maslow suggests that understanding the essence and value of life involves reconnecting with our inner experiences and impulses. He advocates for listening to these inner voices, which guide us toward personal fulfillment and realizing that achieving this deeper understanding of life is indeed possible.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about personal growth.
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.
How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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