So self-actualization means a person has become what he was to become. And you cannot destroy this feeling of something missing by anything else. Unless you become fulfilled, unless you come to a realization, a flowering, unless you come to an inner satisfaction in which you feel, “Now this is what I was meant to be,” this sense of something missing will be felt.
Even if you get whatsoever you demand – riches, power, prestige, anything – you will feel this constant sense of something missing within you, because this something missing is not related with anything outward. It is not really that you are missing riches or position, prestige or power. That feeling of missing is really because of this, that you are not yet actual. And everyone is feeling, that he is missing something. Because unless you are fulfilled, unless you become what you can be or what you are meant to be, unless your destiny is fulfilled, unless you actually attain, unless your seed becomes a fulfilled tree, you will feel that you are missing something. If that is the case – and that is the case – then self-actualization becomes a basic need. Thus, no man is born fulfilled – just with the possibility of fulfillment. You can choose to become actual you can choose not to do anything about it. And nature is not forcing you to become actual. The opportunity may be used or it may not be used. He may become something he may attain actualization of his potentiality or he may not attain. Man is born as a possibility, not as an actuality. He is not really actual – just potential.
Maslow has used this term “self-actualization.” Man is born as potentiality. Is self- actualization a basic need of man?įirst, try to understand what is meant by self-actualization.
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