To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
IRVIN D. YALOM
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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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