Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
IRVIN D. YALOMDespair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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Some 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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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