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.
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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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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