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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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