The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMI never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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