Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
IRVIN D. YALOMNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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