The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.