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.
IRVIN D. YALOMNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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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.
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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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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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