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• Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
• The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
• If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
• Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
• Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
• To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.
• Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
• Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
• If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
• Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward…
• The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
• Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a…

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