To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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