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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Consciousness Necessarily Ourselves Pass Pieces Place Some
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Accept Accuse Act Another Being Fully Oneself Reveal Therapeutic Vehicle
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 spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Choice Construct Man Out Spirit
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
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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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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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Creative Discipline Member Orthodoxy Outgrow Ultimate
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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Another Care Experience Fully Individual Know Mean Other Possible
When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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