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Book: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
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  1. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.
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  2. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    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 eenzaamheid: het is een scheiding van de wereld zelf.
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  3. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    Психотерапевты в своей работе всегда исходят из того, что истина, до которой человек дошел сам, намного дороже той, что ему рассказали другие.
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  4. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    Fiecare alegere presupune o renuntare, si fiecare renuntare ne face constienti de limitare si temporalitate.
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  5. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    would you be willing to live this past year again and again for all eternity?
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  6. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    Nu experientele in sine, ci felul in care le interpretam determina calitatea vietii noastre.
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  7. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    Why, you may ask, take on this unpleasant, frightening subject? Why stare into the sun? Why not follow the advice of the venerable dean of American psychiatry, Adolph Meyer, who, a century ago, cautioned psychiatrists, 'Don't scratch where it doesn't itch'? Why grapple with the most terrible, the darkest and most unchangeable aspect of life? ... Death, however, DOES itch. It itches all the time; it is always with us, scratching at some inner door, whirring softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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  8. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    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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  9. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else...
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  10. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    ...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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  11. Irvin D. Yalom _ Staring at the Sun: Overcoming

    ... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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