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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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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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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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