My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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 one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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