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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

Irvin D. Yalom

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Before Birth Darkness Death Identical Life Spark Void
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Defense Despite Most Staunch Venerable
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Goodwill Movie Out People Peron Person Pick Sea Therapist
You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Everybody Know Other Seen Some Therapy Think You
I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
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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Aware Death East Every Face Moment Much Not Only Stand Stare Sun Terror Try
Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Awareness Earth Finiteness Greater Help Improve Live Really Some Sort
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Credo Import Therapeutic Life Living Perhaps Single Unexamined Worth
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Admire Behave Love Must One Oneself Way
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Look Other Out Patient See Window World
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Choose Growth Pain Pleasure Prepare Some Want
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Box Compassionate Enter Life Maner More Pandora Re Richer
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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Alleviate Another Bear Child Children Consciousness Gem Life Loneliness Need Provide Purpose Reproduce Sperm Use Wrong
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Enough Expression Fear Feeling Interest Opposite Some Write

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

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