Occupation: Psychologist Birth: January 8, 1902 Death: February 4, 1987
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I be….
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels da….
what is most personal is most universal.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination..
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the righ….
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities,….
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves..
It's an awful risky thing to live.
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens..
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed..
An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empat….
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it..
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more….
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are..
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior….
Life is about Being & Becoming..
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to ac….
You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is tha….
Experience is, for me, the highest authority..
Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the ….
When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot ….