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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

Irvin D. Yalom

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Consummated Death Die Life Lose One Terror
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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Cluster Dead Death Living Memory Person Truly Vanish Wonder
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Anything Beter Met never Something Take Way
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Choice Construct Man Out Spirit
When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Absorbed Become Forgotten Ourselves Outside Someone Something
Living safely is dangerous.
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Dangerous Live Safely
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Awareness Despair Pay Price Self
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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Absolute Allow Clear Determine Empty Free Friendship Man Premiseble Way
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Critical Isolation Process Psychotherapy Relationship Terror Therapist
Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Barely Consciousness Just Membrance Mirror Softly Under
…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Life Money Unlive
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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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
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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Awareness Earth Finiteness Greater Help Improve Live Really Some Sort
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Far Fear Group Once Patient Powerful Reason Reluctant Therapist Therapy Thing Too Work

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