Quotes
Peak experiences are transient moments of self-actualization.
(Maslow, 1971, p. 48)
On peak experiences:
Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well. The peak experience induces the recognition that your own powers are far greater than you imagined them.
Colin Wilson
A somewhat more facetious and ironic viewpoint:
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde
Positive effects of resolving genealogical bewilderment:
Ancestral recovery was a peak experience, an extraordinary moment that took my breath away, liberated my spirit, and gave me the confidence to soar like an eagle.
(Judith Land, 2011, Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child, p. 257)
I was high as a kite and more jubilant than a lottery winner was. My happiness was outside the natural range of variability for human emotions.
(Judith Land, 2011, Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child, p. 168)
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