The great lesson from the true mystics is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, and in one's backyard.


Abraham Maslow

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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed ...
KARL ABRAHAM
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural simi...
KARL ABRAHAM
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to vi...
KARL ABRAHAM
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibit...
KARL ABRAHAM
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child wil...
KARL ABRAHAM
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
KARL ABRAHAM
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver...
JOHN ABRAHAM
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN