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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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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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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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

Anguish Another Anxiety Death Finitude Mother Religion Temper Way
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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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