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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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