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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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Always Deliberately Ensure Life Materialize Meaning Ourselves Phenomena Pursue Sense
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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Also Day Decade Distant Feel Future Himself Man One Psychiatrist Spent Strongly
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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Absorbed Being Distinction Heidegger Make Thing Way World
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Close Come Door Else Knock One Pain Somewhere
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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Anxiety Both Decision Domain Finiteness Groundlessness Hard Lead Path Soak Territory
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Anxiety Death Fail Fear Fully Life More
We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Effect Growth Life Local Patient Pleasure Ripple Salutary Take Touch
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Against Believe Cheer Comfort Illusion Magic Quarry Think Though
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower
We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Belief Children Compulsive Develop Ever Famous Future Grow Large Mpregnable Ourselves Project Protective Rescuer Rich Ritual Through Ultimate
There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Anxiety Death Doctor Enter Evidence Example Ned Priest Professional Soldier
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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Brotherhood Close Friendship Live Nothing Obstruct Out Seem Small Time
Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Conflict Disguise Hidden Leak Many Out Stresses Variety Wellspring Worry
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Admire Behave Love Must One Oneself Way
Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Consciousness Necessarily Ourselves Pass Pieces Place Some

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