Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
IRVIN D. YALOMI dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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