Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

Ubijeđen sam da su, u tim zanosima prvih susreta, Dan i žena pogrešno tumačili ono što u vidjeli jedno u drugom. Svako od njih je vidjeo odraz sopstvenog preklinjanja, ranjen pogled i pogrešno ga prot...

بااینکه اقدام به خودکشی به دلیل ترس از مرگ یک پارادوکس است، اما چندان ناشایع نیست. فکر خودکشی تا حدودی به فرد اجازه می‌دهد چیزی را تحت کنترل درآورد که تاکنون او را کنترل می‌کرده است.

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Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Religious beliefs are culture bound…land overwhelmed by poverty, overcrowding, starvation, disease, class oppression and lack of any hope for a better future were what generated these old beliefs. Did...

Люди, чувствующие пустоту, никогда не исцеляются, соединяясь с другим нецелостным,неполным человеком.

Sanki özgürmüşüz gibi yaşamak zorundayız. Yazgımızdan kaçamasak da onun karşısına dikilebilmeliyiz, alınyazımızı kendi irademizle yaşamalıyız. Yazgımızı sevmeliyiz

Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I’d love to be able to eat with my eyes—I’m

Should we not create—should we not become—before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower.

Si totusi libertatea, vazuta dintr-o perspectiva existentiala, este industructibil legata de anxietate, prin afirmarea ideii ca, in ciuda experientei cotidiene, nu intram si nici nu iesim in cele din...

اسپینوزا می گوید: خدا طبیعت است و طبیعت خدامنظورم از طبیعت، درخت یا جنگل یا چمن یا اقیانوس نیست. منظورم هر چیزی است که وجود دارد: وحدت وجود مطلقطبیعت یعنی آنچه بی نهایت، یکپارچه، کامل، عقلانی و منطقی...

Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.   You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? —Thus...

Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamh...

That was the first important discovery I made about Betty: she was desperately isolated, and she survived this isolation only by virtue of the sustaining myth that her intimate life was being lived el...

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality, all else being the play of thought. But we could just as well call it our great...

Viata este o licarire intre doua goluri: intunericul dinainte de nastere si cel de dupa moarte

The most common secret is a deep conviction of basic inadequacy - a feeling that one is basically incompetent, that one bluffs one's way through life. Next in frequency is a deep sense of interpersona...

The same point is made by the Hasidic Rabbi, Susya, who shortly before his death said, When I get to heaven they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' Instead they will ask 'Why were you not Susy...

The second, alternatives exclude, is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating...

Viata este un examen fara nici un raspuns corect

Therapists have a dual role: they must both observe and participate in the lives of their patients. As observer, one must be sufficiently objective to provide necessary rudimentary guidance to the pat...

There is one true property of romantic love: it never stays - evanescence is a part of the nature of an infatuated love state. But be careful trying to rush its demise. Don't try to joust with love an...