When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
IRVIN D. YALOMThe more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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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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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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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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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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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