The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
IRVIN D. YALOMI dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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