Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOMMarriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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 drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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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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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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