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.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s 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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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