The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMIndeed, 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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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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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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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