Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
IRVIN D. YALOMSome piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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