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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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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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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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 love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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