Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident..

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help..

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the inv….

None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very op….

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices..

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97).

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have tran….

Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, ….

One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists ….

To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy ….

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it..

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand..

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it..

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire..

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living..

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's ….

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible..

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their ….

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps ….

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally.