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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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