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.
IRVIN D. YALOMOnly the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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.
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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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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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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.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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