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)
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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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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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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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