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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.

Irvin D. Yalom

Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Conflict Disguise Hidden Leak Many Out Stresses Variety Wellspring Worry
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Accident Existence Let Life Plan Possession
The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Control Drive Enlarge Fear Limitation Motivate Oneself Own Power S[Here
When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Absorbed Become Forgotten Ourselves Outside Someone Something
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Acute Best Every Experience Impatient Knowledge Offer Some Therapy
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Goodwill Movie Out People Peron Person Pick Sea Therapist
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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Absolute Allow Clear Determine Empty Free Friendship Man Premiseble Way
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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Alternate Between Footprint Marvel Mountain Now Sob Think Together Torrential
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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Ago Anxious Easier General Learn Less Long Patient Person Reach Viall
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Alway Death Does Door However Inner Itch Scratch Some Time
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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Brotherhood Close Friendship Live Nothing Obstruct Out Seem Small Time
There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Anxiety Death Doctor Enter Evidence Example Ned Priest Professional Soldier
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Community Nonsuperstious Over Search World
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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Absolute Always Corrupt Individual Known Power Trick
I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal

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