The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
IRVIN D. YALOMI thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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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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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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