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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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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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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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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 feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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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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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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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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