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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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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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