Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
IRVIN D. YALOMJust as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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