What One Can Be, One Must Be!

The Science Of Psychology Has Been Far More Successful On The Negative Than On The Positive Side... It Has Revealed To Us Much About Man's Shortcomings, His Illnesses, His Sins, But Little About His Potentialities, His Virtues, His Achievable Aspirations Or His Psychological Health... We Must Find Out What Psychology Might Be If It Could Free Itself From The Stultifying Effects Of Limited, Pessimistic And Stingy Preoccupations With Human Nature.

The Key Question Isn't, 'what Fosters Creativity?' But It Is, 'why Isn't Everyone Creative?'

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.

The Peaker Learns Surely And Certainly That Life Can Be Worthwhile, That It Can Be Beautiful And Valuable. There Are Ends In Life, I.e., Experiences Which Are So Precious In Themselves As To Prove That Not Everything Is A Means To Some End Other Than Itself.

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.