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Irvin D. Yalom
If we stare too hard into the past, it's easy to be overcome with regret.1
If we stare too hard into the past, it's easy to be overcome with regret.
Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma [...]
Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair? [...]
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He learned that deep inside there is a rich teeming world which, if confronted, brings terrible fear but also offers redemption through illumination.1
He learned that deep inside there is a rich teeming world which, if confronted, brings terrible fear but also offers redemption through illumination.
I've always believed that it's as important to find out what makes one better as it is to determine what makes one worse, [...].1
I've always believed that it's as important to find out what makes one better as it is to determine what makes one worse, [...].
It's always possible, if you want to torment yourself, to find someone to compare yourself with unfavorably. I know that feeling. I've done the same thing.1
It's always possible, if you want to torment yourself, to find someone to compare yourself with unfavorably. I know that feeling. I've done the same thing.
The business of comparing yourself unfavorably to others is always self-destructive. Look, give yourself a break.1
The business of comparing yourself unfavorably to others is always self-destructive. Look, give yourself a break.
The enabling relationship always assumes that the other is never fully knowable.1
The enabling relationship always assumes that the other is never fully knowable.
[...] two broken-winged birds coupled into one makefor clumsy flight. No amount of patience will help it fly; and, ultimately, each must be pried from other, and wounds separately splinted.1
[...] two broken-winged birds coupled into one makefor clumsy flight. No amount of patience will help it fly; and, ultimately, each must be pried from other, and wounds separately splinted.
People who feel empty never heal by merging with another incomplete person.1
People who feel empty never heal by merging with another incomplete person.
“Each time we see the face . . . it is our own ideas of him which we recognize”—these words provide a key to understanding many miscarried relationships.1
“Each time we see the face . . . it is our own ideas of him which we recognize”—these words provide a key to understanding many miscarried relationships.
Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous.1
Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous.
How disquieting to realize that reality is illusion, at best a democratization of perception based on participant consensus.1
How disquieting to realize that reality is illusion, at best a democratization of perception based on participant consensus.
To be truly loved, to be remembered, to be fused with another forever, is to be imperishable and to be sheltered from the aloneness at the heart of existence.1
To be truly loved, to be remembered, to be fused with another forever, is to be imperishable and to be sheltered from the aloneness at the heart of existence.
