Education Is Learning To Grow, Learning What

One Can Go Back Toward Safety Or Forward Toward Growth.

A Person Who Makes Full Use Of And Exploits His Talents, Potentialities, And Capacities. Such A Person Seems To Be Fulfilling Himself And Doing The Best He Is Capable Of Doing. The Self-actualized Person Must Find In His Life Those Qualities That Make His Living Rich And Rewarding. He Must Find Meaningfulness, Self-sufficiency, Effortlessness, Playfulness, Richness, Simplicity, Completion, Necessity, Perfection, Individuality, Beauty, And Truth.

I Think Of The Self-actualizing Man Not As An Ordinary Man With Something Added, But Rather As The Ordinary Man With Nothing Taken Away. The Average Man Is A Full Human Being With Dampened And Inhibited Powers And Capabilities.

A Musician Must Make Music, An Artist Must Paint, An Poet Must Write, If He Is To Be Ultimately At Peace With Himself. What A Man Can Be, He Must Be. This Weed We Call Self-actualization….it Refers To Man’s Desire For Self-fulfillment, Namely To The Tendency For Him To Become Actually In What He Is Potentially: To Become Everything One Is Capable Of Becoming.

We Have Got To Abandon The Sense Of Amazement In The Face Of Creativity, As If It Were A Miracle If Anybody Created Anything.