We Crave And Fear Becoming

Religion Becomes A State Of Mind Achievable In Almost Any Activity Of Life, If This Activity Is Raised To A Suitable Level Of Perfection.

All The Evidence That We Have Indicates That It Is Reasonable To Assume In Practically Every Human Being, And Certainly In Almost Every Newborn Baby, That There Is An Active Will Toward Health, An Impulse Towards Growth, Or Towards The Actualization.

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.

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.

We Must Remember That Knowledge Of One’s Own Deep Nature Is Also Simultaneously Knowledge Of Human Nature In General.