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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Living safely is dangerous.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Hidden 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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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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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