When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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