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My two weeks at the Pioneers camp were the last of their kind. The red Pioneer scarf I worked impossibly hard to earn, and which I proudly wore every day to school, would soon turn into a rag with which we wiped the dust off our
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“death is the condition that makes it possible for us to live life in an authentic fashion.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
― Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre
― Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre
“By keeping death in mind, one passes into a state of gratitude, of appreciation for the countless givens of existence. This is what the Stoics meant when they said, “Contemplate death if you would learn how to live.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“Recently, for example, I visited my optometrist to complain that my eyeglasses no longer functioned as of yore. He examined me and asked my age. “Forty-eight,” I said, and he replied, “Yep, right on schedule.” From somewhere deep inside the thought welled up and hissed: “What schedule? Who’s on schedule? You or others may be on a schedule, but certainly not I.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“Yet, as Heidegger helps us to see, the true danger posed by companies like Facebook and Google is not that they violate our privacy, but that they redefine what we think “privacy” means. Facebook and Google—not to mention tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Tinder, and Twitter—all defend their privacy-endangering practices by simply pointing out that they are only giving users what users want.”
― Nihilism
― Nihilism
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