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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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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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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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