Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment. Carl Rogers More Quotes by Carl Rogers More Quotes From Carl Rogers The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over. Carl Rogers elements impossible needs Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? Carl Rogers satisfying way Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness. Carl Rogers empathy understanding feelings I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them. Carl Rogers upset feelings may 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 of my potentiality. Carl Rogers architect individuality self I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person. Carl Rogers important feelings lying I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines. Carl Rogers religious believe thinking No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. Carl Rogers my-own persons ideas Experience is, for me, the highest authority. Carl Rogers highest authority 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, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust. Carl Rogers stupidity caring attitude Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning. Carl Rogers empathy degrees years Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. Carl Rogers uniting loneliness self Life is about Being & Becoming. Carl Rogers becoming change life-is 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 may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. Carl Rogers learning self attitude Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself. Carl Rogers attitude children thinking To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous." Carl Rogers mental-health conformity different The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. Carl Rogers evidence friendly facts 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 authority. Carl Rogers western-culture taught essence The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated Carl Rogers feminist perception self 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 that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat. Carl Rogers education teacher believe
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