When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
IRVIN D. YALOM…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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 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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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