The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.
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Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes...
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It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the d...
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A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.
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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling th...
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[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ...
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Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never str...
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as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may ...
