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“Shortsighted people make [experientialism and social reform] opposites, mutually exclusive. [...] The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality,…

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“Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero,…

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“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool".”

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“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is to say, those who have private, personal, transcendent, core-religious experiences easily and often and who accept them and make use of them, and, on the other hand, those who have never had them or who repress…

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“The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e., only from outside the person. This means considerable dependence on the environment. A person in this dependent position cannot really be said to be governing himself, or in control of his own fate. He must be beholden to the sources of supply…

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“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality, slavery, cruelty, exploitation (and also are best fighters for excellence, effectiveness, competence). And it also becomes clearer and clearer that our best 'helpers' are the most fully human persons. What I…

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“Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”

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“Descriptively, we can see in each person his own (weak) tendencies to grow toward self-actualization; and also descriptively, we can see his various (weak)…

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“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at all without…

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“The search for the exotic, the strange, the unusual, the uncommon has often taken the form of pilgrimages, of turning away from the world,…

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“Shortsighted people make [experientialism and social reform] opposites, mutually exclusive. [...] The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our…

Abraham H. Maslow

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“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a…

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