Louis Hoffman
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The United States
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Influences
Ernest Becker, Rollo May,
Simone de Beauvoir,
Albert Camus, Friedrich ...more
Simone de Beauvoir,
Albert Camus, Friedrich ...more
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December 2009
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https://www.goodreads.com/louishoffman
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“The deepest love is an honest love—a love strong enough to look at the other person seeing all their gifts and flaws, their strengths and imperfections. It is a weak love that can only exist when the other person is idealized.”
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""Letters for my Father: Grief, Love, and Self-Exploration" by Louis Hoffman is both profoundly simple and exceptionally effective. This series of letters from the author to his father offers an intimate and vulnerable glimpse into their relationship."
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“Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.”
― Existential Psychology East-west
― Existential Psychology East-west
“Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.”
― Existential Psychology East-west
― Existential Psychology East-west
“As therapists our job is to see our clients, even at those times when we would rather look away. It is though our mutual fierce vision that clients discover choice and meaning.”
― Existential Psychology East-west
― Existential Psychology East-west
“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
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“A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.”
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“There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.”
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