Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
IRVIN D. YALOM… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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