Dave Mearns Quotes

#1. The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same!

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#2. The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

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#3. Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us.

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#4. What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.

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#5. Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

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#6. Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

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#7. Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

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