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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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