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.
IRVIN D. YALOMPerhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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 pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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