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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.

Irvin D. Yalom

Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Always Creep Experience Helplessness Indeed Morality Reality
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Away Concern Cure Dear Death Interpersonal Meet Neurotic Psychoneurious Rejection Seem Sense
Living safely is dangerous.
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Dangerous Live Safely
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
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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Absolute Allow Clear Determine Empty Free Friendship Man Premiseble Way
When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Always Bad Cruisity Have People Sign Themselves
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Enough Expression Fear Feeling Interest Opposite Some Write
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Field Finish Medicine Other Psychiatry Really Straight Unlike
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
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Activity Another Concerned Growth Life Love Mena
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
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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Anxiety Death Doctor Enter Evidence Example Ned Priest Professional Soldier
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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Ago Anxious Easier General Learn Less Long Patient Person Reach Viall

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