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?
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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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