The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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