Experience Is The Highest Authority.

What Is Most Personal Is Most Universal

Experience Is, For Me, The Highest Authority. The Touchstone Of Validity Is My Own Experience. No Other Person's Ideas, And None Of My Own Ideas, Are As Authoritative As My Experience. It Is To Experience That I Must Return Again And Again, To Discover A Closer Approximation To Truth As It Is In The Process Of Becoming Me.

Most Of Us Consist Of Two Separated Parts, Trying Desperately To Bring Themselves Together Into An Integrated Soma, Where The Distinctions Between Mind And Body, Feelings And Intellect, Would Be Obliterated.

Growth Occurs When Individuals Confront Problems, Struggle To Master Them, And Through That Struggle Develop New Aspects Of Their Skills, Capacities, Views About Life.

One Of The Most Revolutionary Concepts To Grow Out Of Our Clinical Experience Is The Growing Recognition That Innermost Core Of Man's Nature - The Deepest Layers Of His Personality, The Base Of His 'animal Nature' - Is Basically Socialized, Forward-moving, Rational And Realistic... He Is Realistically Able To Control Himself, And He Is Incorrigibly Socialized In His Desires. There Is No Beast In Man, There Is Only Man In Man.