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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.

Irvin D. Yalom

Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Barely Consciousness Just Membrance Mirror Softly Under
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.
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Gaze Growth Life Need Personal Service Therapist Towards Transcend Wish
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
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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Again Anymore Footbridge Immediately Remind Silent Step Want
One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Clear Feel Important Lety Live One Thing
The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Anxiety Death Fail Fear Fully Life More
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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Able Accomplish Agree Among Change Great Hardly Men Myself Nature
I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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Always Any Cause Comfort Let Offer Patient Personal Religion Something Take View Want
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
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Alway Death Does Door However Inner Itch Scratch Some Time
Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Away Concern Cure Dear Death Interpersonal Meet Neurotic Psychoneurious Rejection Seem Sense
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Defense Despite Most Staunch Venerable
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Anxiety Death Doctor Enter Evidence Example Ned Priest Professional Soldier
I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Cluster Individual Known Last Live Old People Person Some Someone Thought
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Even Good Himself Learn Live never Night Remind Thing

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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