"We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything."
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"The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science."
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"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."
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"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"
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"Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection."
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"What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others."
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"Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs."
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"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
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"The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism."
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"The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'"
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"An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished."
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"Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances."
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"If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run."
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"To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation."
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"Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction."
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"...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."
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"Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?"
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"Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand."
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"The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit."
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"If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies."
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