If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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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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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 love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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.
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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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