I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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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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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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