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.
IRVIN D. YALOMPandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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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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