I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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