Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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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 care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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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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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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