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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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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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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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