Friday at last. Hallelujah! How

Friday at last. Hallelujah!

How to self-actualize.
"A. Pay attention to the world around you. Can you close your eyes and describe the campus?

B. Make risky choices. Try to expand your world, learn from failures.

C. Trust yourself more. Similar to Roger's organismic trusting.

D. When in doubt, tell the truth. This will simplify your life.

E. Recognize the need for discipline. Get the requirements of life out of the way quickly.

F. Cultivate peak experiences (non-chemical variety). Best way to do this is to pay attention of the world and your feelings.

G. Give up your highly-valued pathologies. Experiencing a lot of pain is not sensitivity - it is dumb. Get rid of psychological garbage."

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

I really enjoy that second quote.

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