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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.

Irvin D. Yalom

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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Concern Day Every Example Latter Life Pretty Privacy Security Trivialities Worry
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Effect Growth Life Local Patient Pleasure Ripple Salutary Take Touch
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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Approach Death Existence Frestand Issue Ratherminform Separate Theory Therapy
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Enough Expression Fear Feeling Interest Opposite Some Write
I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Critical Isolation Process Psychotherapy Relationship Terror Therapist
Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Barely Consciousness Just Membrance Mirror Softly Under
If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Able Accomplish Agree Among Change Great Hardly Men Myself Nature
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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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Being Fall Give Large Limited Love Mode Person Rather Relate Single Way
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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Absolute Always Corrupt Individual Known Power Trick
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Death First Learn Live Living Must One
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Consummated Death Die Life Lose One Terror

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