All relationships are opportunities to draw forth caring possibilities, opportunities to reinforce the beauty of person-as-person. Through knowing self as caring person, I am able to be authentic to self and with others. I am able to see from the inside what others see from the outside. Feelings, attitudes, and actions lived in the moment are matched by an inner genuine awareness. The more I am open to knowing and appreciating self and trying to understand the world of other, the greater the awareness of our interconnectedness as caring persons. Knowing of self frees one to truly be with other. How does one come to know self as caring person? Mayeroff's (1971) caring ingredients are useful conceptual tools when one is struggling to know self and others as caring. These ingredients include: honesty, courage, hope, knowing (both knowing about and knowing directly), trust, humility, and alternating rhythm. The idea of a hologram serves as a way of understanding self and other. Pri-bram (1985) offers us an interesting view on relationships in his discussion of hologram. He states that the uniqueness of a hologram is such that if a part (of the hologram) is broken, any part of it is capable of reconstructing the total image (p. 133). Using this idea, if the lens for "being" in relationships is holographic, then the beauty of the person will be retained. Through entering, experiencing, and appreciating the world of other, the nature of being human is ore fully understood. The notion of person as whole or complete expresses an important value. As such, the respect for the total person--all that is in the moment--is communicated. Therefore, from a holographic perspective, it is impossible to focus on a part of a person without seeing the whole person reflected in the part. The wholeness (the fullness of being) is forever present. Perhaps in some context, the word part is incongruent with this notion that there is only wholeness. The term aspect, or dimension, may be a useful substitute.