One's Only Failure Is Failing

One Can Go Back Toward Safety Or Forward Toward Growth.

A Musician Must Make Music, An Artist Must Paint, An Poet Must Write, If He Is To Be Ultimately At Peace With Himself. What A Man Can Be, He Must Be. This Weed We Call Self-actualization….it Refers To Man’s Desire For Self-fulfillment, Namely To The Tendency For Him To Become Actually In What He Is Potentially: To Become Everything One Is Capable Of Becoming.

[concerning] The Usual Contempt With Which An Orthodox Analytic Group Treats All Outsiders And Strangers ... I Urge You To Think Of The Young Psychoanalysts As Your Colleagues, Collaborators And Partners And Not As Spies, Traitors And Wayward Children. You Can Never Develop A Science That Way, Only An Orthodox Church.

People With Intelligence Must Use Their Intelligence, People With Eyes Must Use Their Eyes, People With The Capacity To Love Have The Impulse To Love And The Need To Love In Order To Feel Healthy. Capacities Clamor To Be Used, And Cease Their Clamor Only When They Are Used Sufficiently. That Is To Say, Capacities Are Needs, And Therefore Are Intrinsic Values As Well.

In A Word, To Perceive An Object Abstractly Means Not To Perceive Some Aspects Of It. It Clearly Implies Selection Of Some Attributes, Rejection Of Other Attributes, Creation Or Distortion Of Still Others. We Make Of It What We Wish. We Create It.