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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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