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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.

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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Anything Away Better never Nothing Offer Take
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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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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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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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