Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the inv… - Irvin D. Yalom
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the inv…
- Irvin D. Yalom
Living safely is dangerous. - Irvin D. Yalom
Living safely is dangerous.
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind. - Irvin D. Yalom
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. - Irvin D. Yalom
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. - Irvin D. Yalom
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way… - Irvin D. Yalom
Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way…
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortali… - Irvin D. Yalom
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortali…
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97) - Irvin D. Yalom
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps … - Irvin D. Yalom
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps …
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