Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
IRVIN D. YALOMI must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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