Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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.
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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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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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