A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.