If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
IRVIN D. YALOMJust as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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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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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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