The Best Way To View A Present

We Need Not Take Refuge In Supernatural Gods To Explain Our Saints And Sages And Heroes And Statesmen, As If To Explain Our Disbelief That Mere Unaided Human Beings Could Be That Good Or Wise.

(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.

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.

No Psychological Health Is Possible Unless This Essential Care Of The Person Is Fundamentally Accepted, Loved And Respected By Others And By Himself.

The Human Being Needs A Framework Of Values, A Philosophy Of Life, A Religion Or Religion-surrogate To Live By And Understand By, In About The Same Sense That He Needs Sunlight, Calcium Or Love.