Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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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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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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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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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