Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
IRVIN D. YALOMRather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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 more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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