Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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