Sublime

At the bottom level of the pyramid were basic physiological needs—food, sex, and oxygen, for example. One layer higher were safety needs—such as protection from illness, calamity, and danger. And still higher came love needs, esteem needs, cognitive needs, and aesthetic needs, proceeding all the way to the apex of personal growth—self-actualization

“I have always believed that if I could help someone get more of what’s important to him as a person, then everything else will take care of itself.

‘[T]he fundamental human need is to be needed by those with whom we share a common life.’

the need to act in our immediate world, the need to belong, and the need to achieve.

self-esteem as the ultimate ground of consciousness and therefore the ultimate ground of our being.

I have broken self-actualization—and therefore growth—into three specific needs for which there is strong contemporary scientific support: exploration, love, and purpose.

Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path

to help others, you must first help yourself.