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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.

Irvin D. Yalom

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Alternate Between Footprint Marvel Mountain Now Sob Think Together Torrential
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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Close Come Door Else Knock One Pain Somewhere
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Accept Accuse Act Another Being Fully Oneself Reveal Therapeutic Vehicle
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Choice Construct Man Out Spirit
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Absorbed Being Distinction Heidegger Make Thing Way World
It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Aware Death East Every Face Moment Much Not Only Stand Stare Sun Terror Try
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Enslave Entourage Jealousy Marriage Possession Spirit
Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Attempt Difficult Evidence Grow Health Impatient Indeed Operate Profession Small
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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Almost Come Everybody More Practice Revelation Seen Self Show Some Therapy Want Write Yourself
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
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
…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Life Money Unlive

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