What Is Most Personal Is Most Universal

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, But Without Ever Losing The "as If" Condition. Thus, It Means To Sense The Hurt Or The Pleasure Of Another As He Senses It And To Perceive The Causes Thereof As He Perceives Them, But Without Ever Losing The Recognition That It Is As If I Were Hurt Or Pleased And So Forth.

The Elements In A Relationship Which Seem Impossible To Share, The Secretly Disturbing, Dissatisfying Elements, Are The Most Rewarding To Share. This Is A Hard, Risky, Frightening Thing To Learn, And It Needs To Be Re-learned Over And Over.

The Facts Are Always Friendly, Every Bit Of Evidence One Can Acquire, In Any Area, Leads One That Much Closer To What Is True.

When I Look At The World I'm Pessimistic, But When I Look At People I Am Optimistic.

The Basic Idea Behind Teaching Is To Teach People What They Need To Know.