In teaching Nursing as Caring, faculty assist students to come to know, appreciate, and celebrate self and other as caring person. Mayeroff's On Caring (1971) provides a context for the generic knowing of self as caring. Through dyads or small groups, students share life situations in which they experienced knowing self and other as caring person. Mayeroff's caring ingredients (knowing, alternating rhythm, trust, honesty, hope, courage, humility, patience) also serve as a source for reflection as one asks "who am I as caring person?". As students engage in this exercise, their emerging reflections begin to ground them as they grow in their understanding of person as they live and grow in caring. Students will also draw on the knowledge gleaned in the study of arts and humanities as they attempt to gain a deeper understanding of person. The process of knowing self and other as caring is lifelong. In an educational program grounded in Nursing as Caring, however, the focus on personal knowing (in the study for every nursing situation) provides a deliberate opportunity for greater knowing of self and other as caring person. Students, as well as faculty, are in a continual search to discover greater meaning of caring as uniquely expressed in nursing; journaling is an approach that facilitates this search. For example, in a special form of journaling, students actively dialogue with authors whose works they are reading and with the ideas expressed in their works. This process enhances the students' understanding of caring in nursing. Over time, students integrate and synthesize many ideas and create new understandings. Examination is another process to facilitate learning. From this theoretical perspective, essay examinations that present nursing situations provide opportunities for students to express their knowledge of nurturing persons living and growing in caring. Aesthetic projects also allow the student the opportunity to communicate understanding of a nursing situation. We would like to share with you a project from a course in which the students were asked to express the beauty of a nursing situation. In this nursing situation, the nurse, Michelle, shared her gifts of therapeutic touch and voice as expressions of caring for David in the moment, drawing on an earlier dialogue in which David told her of his love of meditation and the Ave Maria, she wrote: AVE MARIA AND THERAPEUTIC TOUCH FOR DAVID "David, let me know your pain; From fractured leg and heart, Share with me your private hell. Next to one who's far, Far away his own world: Moaning, crying, weak. What's it like to lie beside One who cannot speak?