To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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 you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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