Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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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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