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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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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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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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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