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Life is about Being & Becoming.
It's an awful risky thing to live
Experience is the highest authority.
It is a direction not a destination.
I prize the privilege of being alone.
what is most personal is most universal
What you are to be, you are now becoming.
Experience is, for me, the highest authority.
there is direction but there is no destination
Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!
There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.
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.
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
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.
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
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.
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.