A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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