Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
IRVIN D. YALOMI must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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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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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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