Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
IRVIN D. YALOMSpecialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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 spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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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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