Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
IRVIN D. YALOMYour greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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 one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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