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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Happy Birthday Abraham Maslow: Live Your Life Or Be Dis-Eased

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
Abraham Maslow, psychologist, born today, April 1, 1908

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Alan: The ancient Romans conceived each human being as endowed with genius, a kind of personal "genie" - a living, automomous complex. People would either heed the"genie's" voice -- thus learning to manifest its counsels in the world outside -- or that same genius would become an interior whirlwind intent on self-expression, determined to "make its words flesh." Left unexpressed, that genius swirls with increasing speed until it finds "a way out" - or breaks something.

Almost always, violence and war result from lack of personal creativity.

If Hitler had continued his career as an artist, World War II would not have taken place.

In athe absence of a "real life" based on creativity, people default to make-believe dramas 
in which sturm und drang are inordinately attractive






Abraham Maslow
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