In our first few years， we all live with the faces we were born with.
Beyond that， we start wearing the faces and living the lives we ve created
for ourselves.
We all write， direct， and act the parts we play in the theatre of our
lives. These roles grow out of how we feel about ourselves and how
we want our world to see us. We are all sometimes terribly tragic， some-
times hilariously funny， and sometimes exquisitely absurd. As we live
and act， we can find ways to please ourselves， rather than just pleasing
other people.
In recent years， many psychological understandings and techniques have
come into popular use. Each has the advantage of originality; each has
the disadvantage of being partial， of overemphasizing one part of the
personality. We have synthesized these understandings-the wisdom of
such writers as Perls， Rogers， Jung， Skinner， Freud， Berne， Reich， and
many others-and created an approach that involves the systematic devel-
.， opment of each important part of your personality. And since there is，
in our view， a direct and immediate relationship between good psychology
and good philosophy， we have drawn into our book the wisdom of great
philosophers and prophets of the East and West. For them too， the goal
was the life that feels good to a person.
We have tried to make the mysteries less hidden-to \"de-mystify\" what
all these people have said， saying simply and directly what others have
often stated in complicated ways. You can find ways of using these insights
that fit your own life.
i Several central themes run through these pages. To move toward being
7 a whole person and toward feeling good on a moment-by-moment and
: !i day-to-day basis， each of us needs self-acceptance. Each of us needs self-direc-
~.~ tion， the ability to know who we are independent of the expectations
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