Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
IRVIN D. YALOMLove 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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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.
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