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. YALOMSpecialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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My 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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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