To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
IRVIN D. YALOMAbsolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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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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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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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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