I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
IRVIN D. YALOMI dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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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)
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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 comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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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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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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