The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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