The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
IRVIN D. YALOMA sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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