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.
IRVIN D. YALOMHidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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