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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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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.
IRVIN D. YALOM

Always Deliberately Ensure Life Materialize Meaning Ourselves Phenomena Pursue Sense

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