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.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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