Mature love is loving, not being loved.
IRVIN D. YALOMWe 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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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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