Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOMMirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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