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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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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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