Carl Rogers

On Becoming a Person

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  • cecilia ceciliahas quoted6 years ago
    If I can create a relationship characterized on my part:

    by a genuineness and transparency, in which I am my real feelings;

    by a warm acceptance of and prizing of the other person as a separate individual;

    by a sensitive ability to see his world and himself as he sees them;

    Then the other individual in the relationship:

    will experience and understand aspects of himself which previously he has repressed;

    will find himself becoming better integrated, more able to function effectively;

    will become more similar to the person he would like to be;

    will be more self-directing and self-confident;

    will become more of a person, more unique and more self-expressive;

    will be more understanding, more acceptant of others;

    will be able to cope with the problems of life more adequately and more comfortably.
  • cecilia ceciliahas quoted6 years ago
    I was asking the question, How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
  • cecilia ceciliahas quoted6 years ago
    Yet the paradoxical aspect of my experience is that the more I am simply willing to be myself, in all this complexity of life and the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person, the more change seems to be stirred up. It is a very paradoxical thing—that to the degree that each one of us is willing to be himself, then he finds not only himself changing; but he finds that other people to whom he relates are also changing. At least this is a very vivid part of my experience, and one of the deepest things I think I have learned in my personal and professional life.

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