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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

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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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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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 drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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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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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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