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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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