There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
IRVIN D. YALOM… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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