The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
IRVIN D. YALOMMirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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 dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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