The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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