What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality — Ernest Becker
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What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

— Ernest Becker
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