Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

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

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.