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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Irvin D. Yalom

A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Anxiety Death Deep Dissatisfaction Focus Overcome Point Strat
The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Anxiety Both Decision Domain Finiteness Groundlessness Hard Lead Path Soak Territory
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Life Money Unlive
You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Everybody Know Other Seen Some Therapy Think You
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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Concern Day Every Example Latter Life Pretty Privacy Security Trivialities Worry
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Field Finish Medicine Other Psychiatry Really Straight Unlike
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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Apprehenf As Reach Before Crest Death Downward Life Longer Look Mind Path Slope Toward
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Another Crave Dream Love More People Possess
There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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Always Any Cause Comfort Let Offer Patient Personal Religion Something Take View Want
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Awareness Despair Pay Price Self
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Look Other Out Patient See Window World
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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Against Believe Cheer Comfort Illusion Magic Quarry Think Though
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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Important Pathology People Relationship Student Teach Work
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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Awareness Earth Finiteness Greater Help Improve Live Really Some Sort

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