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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Living safely is dangerous.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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 spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Alway Death Does Door However Inner Itch Scratch Some Time
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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