It's an awful risky thing to live

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.