Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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And 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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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