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.
IRVIN D. YALOMSome sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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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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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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