Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
IRVIN D. YALOMSpecialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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