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
IRVIN D. YALOMMature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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