The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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