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. YALOMI dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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