This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
IRVIN D. YALOMHidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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I 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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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