Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
IRVIN D. YALOMI must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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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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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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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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