Is Obama a Self-Actualized person

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Is there such thing as a self-actualised (English spelling) person? People are more or less self-actualising -maybe we could say...

However, I would say that President Obama has a certain development -in his own way, and is on the one hand a quite complete human-being, quite alive, or relate-able-to guy; has an equal amount of intelligence and sensitivity/individual passion to do good

And on the other, he has got something individual, learnt some things from life; ; or perhaps he is on the verge of this coming into fruition.

I think he is quite an aware person. All these are hallmarks of someone who is self-actualising; however, perhaps he is only in the shallow waters of this, having gone only a little way down the line...

I always think of the East's defintin of someone who is 'fully realised': that s/he has "Sat" full BE-ing- "chit" real Consciousness (which is not everyday, discursive, weak consciousness, but alive and real -but usually Still consciousness); and "Ananda" - Bliss or Full, meaningful Happiness... The man seems to have some of these three...

Self-actualisation is only the first of more stages of 'Realisation;' which goes into the very spiritual sphere; notwithstanding, the actualising person begins to partake in these qualities and understandings...

Who knows the truth about these things? Self-actualisation is a concept from humanistic perspective; all maps are susceptible to being identified with reality, -reality is king, but this map tends to have some truth in it :)