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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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A 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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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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