““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, slavery, cruelty, exploitation (and also our 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 may call the bodhisattvic path is an integration of self-improvement and social zeal, i.e., the best way to become a better 'helper' is to become a better person.””
![“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…” quote by Abraham H. Maslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b3/abraham-h-maslow-40250_better-person_shortsighted-people-make-experientialism_2553155.jpg)
![“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) tendencies toward regressing (out of fear, hostility, or laziness). [...] if a person could himself see all the likely consequences of growth…” quote by Abraham H. Maslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/922/abraham-h-maslow-40250_free-choice_descriptively-we-can-see-in-each-person_2086675.jpg)
![“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 pain and grief and sorrow and turmoil? If grief and pain are sometimes necessary for growth of the person, then we must learn not to protect people from…” quote by Abraham H. Maslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d26/abraham-h-maslow-40250_death_the-question-of-desirable-grief-and-pain_2170879.jpg)
