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The whole thing is best summed as 'whatever you have, you will always want something else.' Even if you have self-actualization, which a psychotherapist in her
by justanotherjoe 3y ago
The whole thing is best summed as 'whatever you have, you will always want something else.' Even if you have self-actualization, which a psychotherapist in here say isn't even really achieveable.
Ultimately you'll realize that you want something that is impossible, like changing the immutable aspects of you ('transcendence').
There is no real shift between self-actualization and transcendence. Just wanting more to be above your peers, from being at the top of the hill (self-actualization) to being at the top of the world, for all time (transcendence). It's all still in the framework of competition.
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- arketyp 3y agoI take your point about feelings of communion being a kind of self-preservation, but I think it is taking it too far to extrapolate competition into that realm. That's per definition not self-transcendence according to how it is described in the article.
- broscillator 3y agoThere's no immutable aspects of you. Everything is constant change. The illusion, the impossibility that you speak of, is this belief in immutability and the craving for it.
- HankWozHere 3y agoCould not agree more. Be Happy. Be peaceful. Be liberated.