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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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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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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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