To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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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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