Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Indeed, 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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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