If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
IRVIN D. YALOMMirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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