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.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen 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?
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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