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 more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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