One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
IRVIN D. YALOMEvery person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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 act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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