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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Heal Healer Only Truly Wound
Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Living safely is dangerous.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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