Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Peak Experience

Peak experience contains two components: an emotional one of ecstasy and an intellectual one of illumination.

A peak experience is what you feel and perhaps "know" when you gain authentic elevation as a human being. It is like the promise of the rainbow. It comes and it goes and it cannot be forgotten.

It is empirically characteristic of the self-actualizing people that they have less doubt about right and wrong than average people do. They do not get confused just because 95% of the population disagrees with them.

A state of subjective well-being is a pretty good guide to what is best for the person.

Self-actualizing people involved in a cause outside their own skin: pursuing truth, beauty, and goodness of the ancients and perfection, simplicit, comprehensiveness...

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