Mature love is loving, not being loved.
IRVIN D. YALOMMany people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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