And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
IRVIN D. YALOMMy hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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