You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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