And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
IRVIN D. YALOMOne comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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