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.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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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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The 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.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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