Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
IRVIN D. YALOMI 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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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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