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.
IRVIN D. YALOMThough the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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