Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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It’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.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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