Fear Of Knowing Is Very Deeply A

One Can Choose To Go Back Toward Safety Or Forward Toward Growth. Growth Must Be Chosen Again And Again; Fear Must Be Overcome Again And Again.

It Seems That The Necessary Thing To Do Is Not To Fear Mistakes, To Plunge In, To Do The Best That One Can, Hoping To Learn Enough From Blunders To Correct Them Eventually.

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.

Getting Used To Our Blessings Is One Of The Most Important Non-evil Generators Of Human Evil, Tragedy And Suffering.

It Isn't Normal To Know What We Want. It Is A Rare And Difficult Psychological Achievement.