Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf 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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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 must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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.
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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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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