The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“See, the human mind is kind of like...a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work… A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Even though peak experiences might show us the truth and inform us about why we are training, they are essentially no big… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“placement in time and space with, finally, the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened, so that the subject was… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The work of cultivating experiences called "peak experiences" or "mystic moments" or "breakthroughs" until they become more accessible is part of the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
