A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMI 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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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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