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Irvin Yalom

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This account is not managed by Irvin D. Yalom. Author of When Nietzsche Wept, The Spinoza Problem etc. Professor of Psychiatry at #Stanford University.

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The flower replied: You fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.

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Beware of stripping a patient who can't bear the chill of reality. And don't exhaust yourself by jousting with religious magic: you're no match for it. The thirst for religion is too strong, its roots too deep, its cultural reinforcement too powerful.

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A curious thought experiment. . . #Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

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One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

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“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 mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.”

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"To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation." Dr. Irvin Yalom

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Here is a short excerpt from the new book, Hour of the Heart, written with my son, Ben (Ben Yalom Creative Therapy). The publisher choose a section that captures the core dilemma at the heart of my experience quite well! The publication date in the US is December 10.

Here is a short excerpt from the new book, Hour of the Heart, written with my son, Ben (Ben Yalom Creative Therapy). The publisher choose a section that captures the core dilemma  at the heart of my experience quite well!

The publication date in the US is December 10.