You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is … - Sidney Jourard
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is …
- Sidney Jourard
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as s… - Sidney Jourard
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as s…
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to… - Sidney Jourard
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to…
Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love. - Sidney Jourard
Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.
We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. - Sidney Jourard
We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.
The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. - Sidney Jourard
The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.
A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead t… - Sidney Jourard
A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead t…
We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host o… - Sidney Jourard
We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host o…
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed. - Sidney Jourard
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
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