I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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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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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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