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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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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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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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