The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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