Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
IRVIN D. YALOMReligion 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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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