According to Abraham Maslow, all
human beings seek to achieve
"self-actualization".  The pink pinnacle
is  the state where full human potential
is achieved and where the motivation to
transcend to higher levels of existence
come into play (towards the very top
blank triangle).

While everyone can achieve their own
full inner potentials, this comes only
after having met all other basic needs
for existence such as food, shelter,
security,
love & belonging.  

While there are different concepts of
love (altruistic, spiritual love and human
love) and each might be placed at a
different levels of the hierarchy,   when it
comes to human love, we can accept
basic human caring and acceptance as
some of the basic human needs.  

Self esteem and self worth grows out of
self love and so it has been placed
above it on the hierarchy. As with all
these layers, each must be built upon
the one preceding it.  

It is also possible to have achieved a
certain level of psycho-emotional
development and then due to life
challenges and set-backs find
ourselves again motivated primarily by
basic needs.

Different types of support and therapy
address varying levels of "needs".

Transpersonal counselling helps to
resolve issues associated with needs
above basic security and "emotionally
process" concerns related to all levels
of  this hierarchy.
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs  
A Theory of Human Motivation, 1943 is still in use today in many fields studying  human behaviour and motivation.
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