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.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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