A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
IRVIN D. YALOMWere not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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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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