We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices. For they are just the failings of mankind to which we also belong and accordingly we have all the same failings buried within ourselves. We should not be indignant with others for these vices simply because they do not appear in us at the moment.
Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.
Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally.
As Nietzsche said, “If we have our own ‘why’ of life, we shall get along with any ’how.
Again, Nietzsche thumbed through his notes, and then read, “ ‘One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum.
As a general rule, the less one’s sense of life fulfillment, the greater one’s death anxiety.
It’s no great mystery. If no one will listen, it’s only natural to shout!
We should cherish things because they are true, not because they are old.
Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous. Casualties occur: the rich, fleecy texture of image, its extraordinary plasticity and flexibility, its private nostalgic emotional hues – all are lost when image is crammed into language.
I wonder if you can ever be at home anywhere, because home is not a place – it’s a state of mind. Really being at home is feeling at home in your own skin... Perhaps you have been searching for home in the wrong place all your life.
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 it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort.
All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral – both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of relating to, and caring for, one another, one person uses another as a shield against isolation. A.
It’s the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals – my professional rosary.
Psychotherapy is a demanding vocation, and the successful therapist must be able to tolerate the isolation, anxiety, and frustration that are inevitable in the work.
Some cannot loosen their own chains yet can nonetheless liberate their friends. – Nietzsche.
You wonder about a conversation with nothing concealed – its real name is hell, I believe. To disclose oneself to another is the prelude to betrayal, and betrayal makes one sick, does it not?
Perhaps,” said Nietzsche, “only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman.
When, at the end of their lives, most men look back they will find that they have lived throughout ad interim. They will be surprised to see that the very thing they allowed to slip by unappreciated and unenjoyed was just their life. And so a man, having been duped by hope, dances into the arms of death.