If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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