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“The depressed person sees no meaning in life largely because the small box of her linguistic thinking limits her view of what life is. The anxious person fears self-destruction largely because her linguistic understanding of her own identity is confining.”

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Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

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