If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
IRVIN D. YALOMThe spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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