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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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