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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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