" our basic suffering is rooted in a kind of original separation anxiety, which he called a “fear of life.” We fear what has already irrevocably happened—separation from the greater whole—and yet we also come to fear the loss, in death, of this precious individuality. “Between these two fear possibilities,” Rank wrote, “these poles of fear, the individual is thrown back and forth all his life, which accounts for the fact that we have not been able to trace fear back to a single root, or to overcome it therapeutically.”8 "

― Mark Epstein , Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From A Buddhist Perspective