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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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