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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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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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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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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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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