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.
IRVIN D. YALOMPandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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