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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one 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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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Alleviate Another Bear Child Children Consciousness Gem Life Loneliness Need Provide Purpose Reproduce Sperm Use Wrong
The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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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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