Becoming a Person means the individual moves towards being. knowingly and acceptingly, the process which inwardly and actually is. He moves away from being what he is not, from being a façade. he is not trying to be more than he is, with the attendant feelings of insecurity or bombastic defensiveness. He is not trying to be less than he is, with the attendant of guilt or self-depreciation. He is increasingly listening to the deepest recesses of the psychological and emotional being, and finds himself increasingly willing to be, with greater accuracy and depth, that self which he most truly is.
Carl Rogers
West Virginia