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.
Irvin D. YalomLife is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Irvin D. YalomThe path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessnessโdomains soaked in anxiety.
Irvin D. Yalom