It's An Awful Risky Thing To Live

The Action Of The Child Inventing A New Game With His Playmates; Einstein Formulating A Theory Of Relativity; The Housewife Devising A New Sauce For The Meat, A Young Author Writing His First Novel; All Of These Are In Terms Of Definition, Creative, And There Is No Attempt To Set Them In Some Order Of More Or Less Creative.

Although The Client-centered Approach Had Its Origin Purely Within The Limits Of The Psychological Clinic, It Is Proving To Have Implications, Often Of A Startling Nature, For Very Diverse Fields Of Effort.

When A Person Realizes He Has Been Deeply Heard, His Eyes Moisten. I Think In Some Real Sense He Is Weeping For Joy. It Is As Though He Were Saying, "thank God, Somebody Heard Me. Someone Knows What It's Like To Be Me".

It Is That The Individual Has Within Him Or Herself Vast Resources For Self-understanding, For Altering The Self-concept Basic Attitudes, And His Or Her Self-directed Behavior - And That These Resources Can Be Tapped If Only A Definable Climate Of Facilitative Psychological Attitudes Can Be Provided

There Is Another Peculiar Satisfaction In Really Hearing Someone: It Is Like Listening To The Music Of The Spheres, Because Beyond The Immediate Message Of The Person, No Matter What That Might Be, There Is The Universal. Hidden In All Of The Personal Communications Which I Really Hear There Seem To Be Orderly Psychological Laws, Aspects Of The Same Order We Find In The Universe As A Whole. So There Is Both The Satisfaction Of Hearing This Person And Also The Satisfaction Of Feeling One's Self In Touch With What Is Universally True.