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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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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
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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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Acute Best Every Experience Impatient Knowledge Offer Some Therapy
My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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