To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOMSince then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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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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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.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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