But Behavior In The Human Being Is

The Peaker Learns Surely And Certainly That Life Can Be Worthwhile, That It Can Be Beautiful And Valuable. There Are Ends In Life, I.e., Experiences Which Are So Precious In Themselves As To Prove That Not Everything Is A Means To Some End Other Than Itself.

(some People) Have A Wonderful Capacity To Appreciate Again And Again, Freshly And Naively, The Basic Goods Of Life, With Awe, Pleasure, Wonder, And Even Ecstasy.

What Does 'happy' Mean? Happiness Is Not A State Like Vermont.

He That Is Good With A Hammer Tends To Think Everything Is A Nail.

As One Studies These Preconditions, One Becomes Saddened By The Ease With Which Human Potentiality Can Be Destroyed Or Repressed, So That A Fully-human Person Can Seem Like A Miracle, So Improbable A Happening As To Be Awe-inspiring. And Simultaneously One Is Heartened By The Fact That Self-actualizing Persons Do In Fact Exist, That They Are Therefore Possible, That The Gauntlet Of Dangers Can Be Run, That The Finish Line Can Be Crossed.