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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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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Close Come Door Else Knock One Pain Somewhere
A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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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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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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