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.
IRVIN D. YALOMPsychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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