We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
IRVIN D. YALOMA sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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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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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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