One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
IRVIN D. YALOMIt’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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