Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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 more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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