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, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves. - Carl Rogers
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
- Carl Rogers
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 … - Carl Rogers
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 …
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. - Carl Rogers
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. - Carl Rogers
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… - Carl Rogers
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…
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… - Carl Rogers
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…
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are. - Carl Rogers
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities,… - Carl Rogers
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities,…
what is most personal is most universal - Carl Rogers
what is most personal is most universal
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