The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Just 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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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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