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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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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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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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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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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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