Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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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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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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