I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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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.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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