If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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?
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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