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“A Way of Being”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 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. Empathy, Understanding, Feelings.
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Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's...
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“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” (Carl Rogers 1980 P140). "To my mind, empathy is in itself a healing agent.
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. Carl Rogers. A Way of Being, Houghton Mifflin, 1980: 116.
- Empathy, One of Carl Rogers’s Favorite Subjects
- Direct Experience as A Priority
- Acceptance as An Impulse For Change
- The Value of Being Yourself
- Admitting Our Feelings
- Tolerating Uncertainty
- Learn to Learn
From Carl Rogers’s perspective, empathy is a fundamental concept.In fact, he considered it one of the basic attitudes that a person has to develop to reach self-realization. Now, being empathetic, according to Carl Rogers, is not putting yourself in the other’s shoes.Empathy takes serious work, reflection and knowledge about how the other person ob...
This quote is controversial, but it also makes you think. Rogers emphasizes that our most important guide isn’t others, not even religion. The most important guide is within yourself. Rogers says the highest authority is one’s own experience.While he thinks other people’s judgement should be heard, he says they shouldn’t be considered a guide. Thus...
For Rogers, acceptance is the basis of change.If there’s no acceptance, there’s no change because the mind is “lost.” Therefore looking at who we really are and knowing ourselves is the key to growing as a person.
Carl Rogers thinks people are as beautiful as sunsets — if they’re allowed to be sunsets. That is, he appreciates sincerity and authenticity above all; the natural state of each one of us. Rogers learned in his relationships that, in the long-term, it doesn’t help to act like someone he’s not. We can’t be happy if we display a false version of ours...
When we experience any feeling, the appropriate action is to accept it, not evade or repress it. The feelingmust be sheltered and listened to. What is the message it entails? Only then will we be able to know ourselves and others. Only then will we begin to get to know each other.
Fear and uncertainty are our companions in life. Not everything is controllable or predictable, or even safe. Confusion and emotional ups and downs will happen and we have to be prepared. Having the idea that we can control everything comes from being afraid of not knowing how to react. It is the result of insecurity. And, even though it’s impossib...
Carl Rogers understood that, as an educated person, he was trying to grow and change.Self-knowledge and self-realization walk hand-in-hand along the path of life. To be educated, one must be informed, reflect, and question. As we can see, the legacy Carl Rogers left is a great source of knowledge and can really help people.In his first years as a p...
186 quotes from Carl R. Rogers: 'The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.', 'People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset.
The following is a transcript of a talk Carl Rogers made in 1974 on the topic of empathy. “Many years ago, I realized how powerful it was to listen to a person. In recent months, I’ve been working on a paper trying to take a fresh look at the power of listening, at the power of an empathic way of being, and that’s what I want to talk to ...
