The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

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Since 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.

IRVIN D. YALOM

Since 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.
IRVIN D. YALOM

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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

IRVIN D. YALOM

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Before Identical Spark Void
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.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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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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!

IRVIN D. YALOM

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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.

IRVIN D. YALOM

To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

IRVIN D. YALOM

Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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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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.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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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Idea might None Part Patient Say Some
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

IRVIN D. YALOM

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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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.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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.
IRVIN D. YALOM

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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.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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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Able Accomplish Among Hardly
Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.

IRVIN D. YALOM

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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.

IRVIN D. YALOM

Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Barely Consciousness Just Membrance Softly Under
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

IRVIN D. YALOM

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Enslave Entourage Jealousy
You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.

IRVIN D. YALOM

You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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