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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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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.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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