To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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.
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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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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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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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