Michael Johnson wrote:
>
> One thing to note is that when an individual has experienced a higher
> level of comfort, attained personally, they tend to gravitate back to it
> -- while those who had that comfort "given to them" , i.e. an excess of
> reward, tend to only become dissatisfied with themselves and their
> "benefactor".
perhaps one of the best examples of a self-actualized person in a
capitalist society was Walt Whitman. I frequently stop and reflect on one
of my favorite stanzas from Leaves of Grass, to remind me:
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all
poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . there are millions
of suns left,
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . nor look
through the eyes of the dead . . .
. . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
-- Richard C. "Doc" Holloway, Thresholds--Human Development and Networking P.O. Box 2361, Olympia, WA 98507 Phone: (360) 786-0925 Fax: (360) 709-4361 e-mail: olypolys@nwrain.com"Every act of entering into any place, every coming out from any corner has about it a bit of the dramatic; at times it has a great deal--hence the rites of the doorway and the lintel. The Romans believed in special gods who presided at that condensation of enigmatic destiny which is the act of going out or of coming in."
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
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