Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
IRVIN D. YALOMPandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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