Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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