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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Irvin D. Yalom

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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Between Difference Fall Infinite Love Passion People Spark Stand
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Defense Despite Most Staunch Venerable
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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Gaze Growth Life Need Personal Service Therapist Towards Transcend Wish
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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Community Nonsuperstious Over Search World
The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Anxiety Death Fail Fear Fully Life More
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death Form Mode Number Other Primary Specialties Take Transcendence
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Consummated Death Die Life Lose One Terror
This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Awareness Began Brought Come Confrontation Death Due Existential Experience Increase Preciousness Think
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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Almost Come Everybody More Practice Revelation Seen Self Show Some Therapy Want Write Yourself
Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Attempt Difficult Evidence Grow Health Impatient Indeed Operate Profession Small
When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Cluster Dead Death Living Memory Person Truly Vanish Wonder
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Another Care Experience Fully Individual Know Mean Other Possible
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Brotherhood Close Friendship Live Nothing Obstruct Out Seem Small Time
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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower

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