The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
IRVIN D. YALOMSince then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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