Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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