In ‘On Becoming A Person’, humanist psychologist Carl Rogers writes: “I should like to point out one final characteristic of these individuals as they strive to discover and become themselves. It is that the individual seems to become more content to be a process, rather than a product.

“When he enters the therapeutic relationship, the client is likely to wish to achieve some fixed state. He wants to reach the point where his problems are solved, or where he is effective in his work, or where his marriage is satisfactory. He tends, in the freedom of the therapeutic relationship, to drop such fixed goals, and to accept the more satisfying realization that he is not a fixed entity - but a process of becoming.”

If we can let go of the desire to be something other than we are, and embrace the idea that we are constantly changing, perhaps we can accept ourselves. Perhaps we can be happy.

For transcript and notes go to: Be Who You Are A Beautiful Thought