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

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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your 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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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