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What I am is good enough, if I could just be it openly.
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Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem
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Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
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Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group
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Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle … knowledge exists primarily for use.
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Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
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Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
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Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future
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It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
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I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
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Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression
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There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
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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.
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Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.
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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 potent forces for change that I know.
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Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
January 8, 1902
Died:
February 4, 1987
(aged 85)
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