Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
IRVIN D. YALOMNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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