Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
IRVIN D. YALOMA 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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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