A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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 must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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