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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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Approach Death Existence Frestand Issue Ratherminform Separate Theory Therapy
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Being Love Loved Loving Mature
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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Dangerous Live Safely

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