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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.

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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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