When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
IRVIN D. YALOMPsychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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