Hollie

“I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. To really know what I am experiencing in the moment is by no means an easy thing, but I feel somewhat encouraged because I think that over the years I have been improving at it.”
― Carl R. Rogers, A Way Of Being

“Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“Since the culture most of us have inherited offers little mythic mediation for the placement of self in a larger context, it is all the more imperative that the individual enlarge his or her vision.”
― James Hollis, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be