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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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