Illusion Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.” quote by Irvin D. Yalom — Download Open image

““How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.””

Irvin D. Yalom

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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and…

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“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And not only Goethe but many other great Germans. Lessing and Heine reported a clarity and calmness that came from reading this book. Who knows, there may come a time in your life when you, too, will…

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“Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment.” “Your”

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Mature love is loving, not being loved.

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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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“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly through predictable stages of therapy to a foreknown goal, such is rarely the case: instead, as these stories bear witness, therapists frequently wobble, improvise, and grope for direction. The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing…

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