We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
IRVIN D. YALOMRather, 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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming 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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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