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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?

Irvin D. Yalom

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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Ago Anxious Easier General Learn Less Long Patient Person Reach Viall
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Look Other Out Patient See Window World
Living safely is dangerous.
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Dangerous Live Safely
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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Awareness Began Brought Come Confrontation Death Due Existential Experience Increase Preciousness Think
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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Defense Despite Most Staunch Venerable
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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Also Day Decade Distant Feel Future Himself Man One Psychiatrist Spent Strongly
Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Alternate Between Footprint Marvel Mountain Now Sob Think Together Torrential
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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Come Despair Dream Even Many More People True
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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Always Any Cause Comfort Let Offer Patient Personal Religion Something Take View Want
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
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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Cluster Individual Known Last Live Old People Person Some Someone Thought
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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Clear Feel Important Lety Live One Thing
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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Brook Comfort Obvious Other Put Ripple Sense Source Stone Think
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Country Curious Experiment Life Live Message People Person Repeat Same Such Through Way Willing

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