Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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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?
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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 the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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