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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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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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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 we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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 project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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