The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.