If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe 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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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