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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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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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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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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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