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.
IRVIN D. YALOM… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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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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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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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.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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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.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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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