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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
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! (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
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 Yalom Quotes)
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
... the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
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, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
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 (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They’re linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We’re passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that’s what makes our life full of meaning (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death. (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help. (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind. (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The ultimate goal of therapy... it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential. (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The ultimate goal of therapy... it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past (Irvin D Yalom Quotes)
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