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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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