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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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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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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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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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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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