There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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