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. YALOMWhat? ‘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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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