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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
IRVIN D. YALOM

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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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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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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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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
IRVIN D. YALOM

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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
IRVIN D. YALOM

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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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