Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
IRVIN D. YALOMI feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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