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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.

Irvin D. Yalom

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Creative Discipline Member Orthodoxy Outgrow Ultimate
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Enslave Entourage Jealousy Marriage Possession Spirit
You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Everybody Know Other Seen Some Therapy Think You
When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Absorbed Become Forgotten Ourselves Outside Someone Something
Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Come Despair Dream Even Many More People True
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Before Birth Darkness Death Identical Life Spark Void
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Even Good Himself Learn Live never Night Remind Thing
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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Also Day Decade Distant Feel Future Himself Man One Psychiatrist Spent Strongly
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Compreghend Oneself Order Our Preoccuped
Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Always Creep Experience Helplessness Indeed Morality Reality
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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Community Nonsuperstious Over Search World
As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Apprehenf As Reach Before Crest Death Downward Life Longer Look Mind Path Slope Toward
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death Form Mode Number Other Primary Specialties Take Transcendence
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Alleviate Another Bear Child Children Consciousness Gem Life Loneliness Need Provide Purpose Reproduce Sperm Use Wrong

My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.

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