To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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