He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.
Lucretius’ maxim: ‘Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.
Members of a cohesive group feel warmth and comfort in the group and a sense of belongingness; they value the group and feel in turn that they are valued, accepted, and supported by other members.
I have noted two particularly powerful and common methods of allaying fears about death, two beliefs, or delusions, that afford a sense of safety. One is the belief in personal specialness; the other, the belief in an ultimate rescuer.
Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you’ve just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway.
Absolutely, bring any kind of carrot cake you wish.
Death and life are interdependent: though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death saves us.
The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been in despair.
I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion.” Franco’s.
How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.
The same point is made by the Hasidic Rabbi, Susya, who shortly before his death said, “When I get to heaven they will not ask me, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ Instead they will ask ‘Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?
From both my personal and my professional experience, I had come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully.
Fiecare alegere presupune o renuntare, si fiecare renuntare ne face constienti de limitare si temporalitate.
The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely.
A nightmare is a failed dream, a dream that, by not “handling” anxiety, has failed in its role as the guardian of sleep.
If we do not want to be a plaything in the hands of every rogue and the object of every fool’s ridicule, the first rule is to be reserved and inaccessible.
At other times Betty expressed anger at my forcing her to think about morbid topics. “Why think about death? We can’t do anything about it!” I tried to help her understand that, though the fact of death destroys us, the idea of death can save us. In other words, our awareness of death can throw a different perspective on life and incite us to rearrange our priorities.
A great many of our patients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an intimate relationship with the therapist. Some fear intimacy because they believe there is something basically unacceptable about them, something repugnant and unforgivable, Given this, the act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so beautiful but it is more instructive because it enables one to see how the threads are connected together.
They are part of the slave mentality artfully engineered by priestly propaganda. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.