The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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