"Empathy is a special way of coming to……" — Carl Rogers

"Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness."

— Carl Rogers

81 Quotes by Carl Rogers

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Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment,…
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus…
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth,…
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to…
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been…
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency…
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate…
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

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I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. — Steve Buscemi
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid.… — Coleman Dowell
To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for… — Rajneesh
And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about. — Rajneesh
Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness.… — Rajneesh
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in… — Khalil Gibran
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when… — Vernon Howard
Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being… — Rajneesh
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird. — Rajneesh
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the… — Laozi
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am… — Flannery O'Connor
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a… — Erich Fromm

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