Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the potential for self-determination and growth in every moment.
Abraham Maslow's quote suggests that individuals hold within themselves the power to shape their own future. It highlights the idea that the present moment is rich with possibilities and that personal growth and transformation are always attainable, driven by one's thoughts, actions, and choices.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Islam is based on naql (texts) and βaql (intellect). Some people just have the texts β we call them naql-heads.
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.
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