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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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.
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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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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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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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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