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To listen to another person is to offer a gift. To listen with caring to another person is to offer a gift of awareness. To listen with acceptance to all facets of another person is to offer a gift of healing. To listen with patience for new ways to see the past events of another person is to offer a gift of freedom. To listen with reverence for new becomings emerging within another...

Let us suppose, however, that I know persons to be composed of biological urges and the pressure to restrain those urges. The drive for unlimited pleasure is met by the rules of society. As a listener I will focus upon a person’s aggressive and sexual feelings and the ensuing struggles to discover acceptable ways to both control and express them. The prime reality is the body; personality emerges from it. The bubbling biological caldron becomes the primary force in the life of the person. Finding
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