Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
IRVIN D. YALOMMy 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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A 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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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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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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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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 never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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