Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
IRVIN D. YALOMA focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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