Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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