I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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 had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming 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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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