The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath 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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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