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Irvin D. Yalom
“I urge you not to distract yourself. Instead, savor awakening. Take advantage of it. Pause as you stare into the photograph of the younger you. Let the poignant moment sweep over you and linger a bit; taste the sweetness of it as well as the bitterness. Keep in mind the advantage of remaining aware of death, of hugging its shadow to you. Such awareness can integrate the darkness with your spark of life and enhance your life while you still have it. To way to value life, the way to feel compassion for others, the way to love anything with greatest depth is to be aware that these experiences are destined to be lost.”
Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
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Irvin D. Yalom
“Sometimes death anxiety is dismissed as trivial in its universality. Who, after all, does not know and fear death? Yet it is one thing to know about death in general, to grit one's own teeth and stoke up a shudder or two; it is quite another to apprehend one's own death and to experience it in the bones and sockets of one's being. Such death awareness is a terror that comes rarely, sometimes only once or twice in a lifetime-a terror that Marvin now experienced night after night.”
Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom
“Creating yourself is a source of great pride, but it also leads to a feeling of having no foundations. I’ve known many gifted children of immigrants who have a sense of being lilies growing in a swamp—beautiful flowers but no deep roots.”
Irvin D. Yalom, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

Irvin D. Yalom
“Your task is to accept yourself—not to find ways to gain my acceptance.”
Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

Irvin D. Yalom
“Let me adapt some of Nietzsche's words and say this to you: "To become wise, you must learn to listen to the wild dogs barking in your cellar.”
Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
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