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Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible. " But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.

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

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The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.

Creativity, Discover, Mean, Men, Organic, Self

what is most personal is most universal

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Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Effective Listening, Effectively, Empathy, Inability, Listen, Men

I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person. So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

Lying, Feelings, Important, Meaning, Knows, Resonate

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

Bringing, Degrees, Empathy, Factors, Strongly, Years
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