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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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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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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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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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