We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.