Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
