We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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