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Rather, 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.

Irvin D. Yalom

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Creative Discipline Member Orthodoxy Outgrow Ultimate
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
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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Goodwill Movie Out People Peron Person Pick Sea Therapist
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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Come Despair Dream Even Many More People True
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Like More Unlive
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Death Destroy Idea Physical Save Through
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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Against Believe Cheer Comfort Illusion Magic Quarry Think Though
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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Awareness Earth Finiteness Greater Help Improve Live Really Some Sort
The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Control Drive Enlarge Fear Limitation Motivate Oneself Own Power S[Here
What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Country Emest Game never People Person Real Said Therapist Think
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Far Fear Group Once Patient Powerful Reason Reluctant Therapist Therapy Thing Too Work
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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Certain Hunch Make Miserable Mist Most Ruthless Something Trend
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Brotherhood Close Friendship Live Nothing Obstruct Out Seem Small Time
This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Awareness Began Brought Come Confrontation Death Due Existential Experience Increase Preciousness Think
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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Apprehenf As Reach Before Crest Death Downward Life Longer Look Mind Path Slope Toward

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