And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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?
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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