Roach and Mayeroff provide some explanation as to what caring involves. Roach in her works (1984, 1987, 1992) has asserted that caring is the "human mode of being" (1992, p. ix). As such, it entails the capacity to care, the calling forth of this ability in ourselves and others, responding to something or someone that matters and finally actualizing the ability to care (192, p. 47). Since caring is a characteristic of being human, it cannot be attributed as a manifestation of any single discipline. These beliefs have directly influenced our assumption that all persons are caring. Mayeroff, a philosopher, in his 1971 book On Caring, discusses caring as an end in itself, an ideal, and not merely a means to some future end. Within the context of caring as process, Roach (1992, 1984) says that caring entails the human capacity to care, the calling forth of this ability in ourselves and others, the responsivity to something or someone that matters, and the actualizing of the power to care. Even though our human nature is to be caring, the full expression of this varies with the lived experience of being human. The process of bringing forth this capability can be nurtured through concern and respect for person as person. Mayeroff suggests that caring "is not to be confused with such meanings as wishing well, liking, comforting, and maintaining . . . it is not an isolated feeling or a momentary relationship" (p. 1). He describes caring as helping the other grow. In relationships lived through caring, changes in the one who cares and the one cared for are evident. Mayeroff tells us how caring provides meaning and order: In the context of a man's life, caring has a way of ordering his other values and activities around it. When this advising is comprehensive, because of the inclusiveness of his caring, there is a basic stability in his life; he is "in place" in the world instead of being out of place, or merely drifting on endlessly seeking his place. Through caring for certain others, by serving them through caring a man lives the meaning of his own life. In the sense in which a man can ever be said to be at home in the world, he is at home not through dominating, or explaining, or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for (1971, p. 2). Mayeroff expressed ideas about the meaning of being a caring person when he referred to trust as "being entrusted with the care of another" (p. 7). He spoke of both "being with" the other (p. 43) and "being for" (p. 42) the other, experiencing the other as an extension of self and at the same time "something separate from me that I respect in its own right" (p. 2). To be a caring person means to "live the meaning of my own life" (p. 72), having a sense of stability and basic certainty that allows an openness and accessibility, experiencing belonging, living congruence between beliefs and behavior, and expressing a clarity of values that enables living a simplified rather than a cluttered life.