Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
IRVIN D. YALOMSpecialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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