Mature love is loving, not being loved.
IRVIN D. YALOMI thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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