Irvin Yalom

Staring at the Sun

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  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted7 years ago
    there is a huge difference between knowing about something and knowing it through your own experience.
  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted3 years ago
    Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an im-pregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
  • Антипова Надеждаhas quoted6 years ago
    What terrifies most about death is not the loss of the future but the loss of the past. In fact, the act of forgetting is a form of death always present within life.”
  • Антипова Надеждаhas quoted6 years ago
    The central thesis of this chapter is: though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death saves us.
  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted7 years ago
    understanding the factors that make clients feel better is as important as understanding those that make them feel worse
  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted7 years ago
    I still have time for another career. I’d hate to grow old and look back and realize I never even tried to do anything else.”
  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted7 years ago
    the observer always influences what is observed
  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted7 years ago
    Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude
  • Nick Kritskyhas quoted7 years ago
    In other words, the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
  • Катерина Россоловичhas quoted7 years ago
    Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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