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

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

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

We do what we are and we are what we do.

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light