Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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 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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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