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People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can 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. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

— Carl Rogers Freedom to learn (1969)

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

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

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

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There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

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

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