Experience is the highest authority..

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the….

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. Th….

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change..

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse….

To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one w….

The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for ….

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; ….

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own….

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then….

We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so care….

I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometime….

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise ….

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components an….

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most ….

I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feel….

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged….

There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate mess….

The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, no….

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more ….

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively cl….