Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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