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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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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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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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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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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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