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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.

Irvin D. Yalom

Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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