When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
IRVIN D. YALOMAnd if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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