The Best Way To View A Present

A Child Wants Some Kind Of Undisrupted Routine Or Rhythm. He Seems To Want A Predictable, Orderly World.

All The Evidence That We Have Indicates That It Is Reasonable To Assume In Practically Every Human Being, And Certainly In Almost Every Newborn Baby, That There Is An Active Will Toward Health, An Impulse Towards Growth, Or Towards The Actualization.

Expression And Communication In The Peak–experiences Tend Often To Become Poetic, Mythical, And Rhapsodic, As If This Were The Natural Kind Of Language To Express Such States Of Being.

It Looks As If There Were A Single Ultimate Goal For Mankind, A Far Goal Toward Which All Persons Strive. This Is Called Variously By Different Authors Self-actualization, Self-realization, Integration, Psychological Health, Individuation, Autonomy, Creativity, Productivity, But They All Agree That This Amounts To Realizing The Potentialities Of The Person, That Is To Say, Becoming Fully Human, Everything That Person Can Be.

Whereas The Average Individuals "often Have Not The Slightest Idea Of What They Are, Of What They Want, Of What Their Own Opinions Are," Self-actualizing Individuals Have "superior Awareness Of Their Own Impulses, Desires, Opinions, And Subjective Reactions In General."