I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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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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