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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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