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.
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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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