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.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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