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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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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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