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.
IRVIN D. YALOMA 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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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.
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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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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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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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