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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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