Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe 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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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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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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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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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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