Our greatest urge is toward psychological wholeness and self actualization of our inner potential?

Question

do you guys believe this to be true ? what are your opinions

hey who doesnt sit back an have a few an smoke a few but i think that doesnt hinder those urges, unless thats all they do lol

Answer 1

I believe this is true, in fact I believe it to be our only urge. Anything you could make up, your hopes and dreams, when they are fulfilled you feel whole. But soon later you will have another dream or goal, so I believe this urge, will be everlasting.

Answer 2

I think our greatest urge these days is towards self destruction. We live and thrive in a throwaway, replaceable society and this is reflected on our own conscience; life has little meaning, either spiritually, physically or psychologically and therefore we have Little respect for it; so we smoke, we drink, we take drugs and we do all the things we know we shouldn't. Psychological wholeness is, and has always been, an impossibility, and self actualisation of our inner potential seems like hard work; sit back, open the bottle and take a big toke, in a thousand years, who is gonna care?


Our earliest urges are for comfort (and food) so perhaps a life time of budweiser and blow would be the ideal. Good luck.

Answer 3

Well it depends. If all your basic needs have been met then you definitely yearn for "something more" and self-actualization would certainly be nice. Most people don't quite make it there though because they're still caught up in other needs not being met. I can't remember...was it psychology or first year sociology where they discussed Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...it's been a long time since I finished school! So if your needs were a pyramid then the basic survival needs (food, water, shelter, clothing) would be at the bottom. If you don't meet these, you die & never move up any higher! In North America, most of us have these covered. Then there are the needs for love & belonging or something to that effect. I think many people are stuck here. Actually I think most people don't love themselves. They actually do things to destroy themselves (unhealthy addictions etc) & are stressed, depressed, angry etc, then they can't love anyone else either. Very few people have their entire life together to the point that they can even attempt achieving self-actualization. I suppose it can be done though & has been done by a select few (saints, monks, etc)

Answer 4

Well, if by "greatest" you mean most noble .. I agree.
If by "greatest" you mean strongest or most powerful, I disagree.
I'm all about wanting self actualization and realizing my inner potential, but every day goes by and I don't manage to do anything to make it happen. So it's not an overwhelming drive... it doesn't even really compete with my urge to answer questions on Yahoo!.