Carl R. Rogers Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Carl R. Rogers
Carl R. Rogers Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.
The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.
I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.
There is no organised encounter group. There is simply a freedom of expression - of feelings and thoughts - on any personally relevant issue.
I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West
- Ellen West
I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.
It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential, and has little or no significant influence on behavior.
Can I "accept" a person's anger at me as an authentic aspect of himself? Can I "accept" the person if his beliefs and values are different from mine?
In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not.
I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.
Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.
It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.
Once an experience is fully in awareness, fully accepted, then it can be coped with effectively, like any other clear reality.
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.
In therapy the individual learns to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person.
Group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led.