Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
IRVIN D. YALOMMirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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