Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
IRVIN D. YALOMOnly 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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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