“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.”

—  Virginia Satir

Brief biography http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/satir2.html at Webster University

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