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.
IRVIN D. YALOMMarriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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I 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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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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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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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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