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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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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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