Living safely is dangerous.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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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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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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