We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men [sic] who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. . . . [T]hey offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, p.86
One can build a psychology of life around this “last freedom,” and Frankl did and called it logotherapy, assuming meaning in life under any and all circumstances. ~jpc
O to see through everything to the center. Namaste.
image: A Bosnian Muslim woman cries during a mass funeral in the town of Brcko June 16, 2007. Thousands of friends and relatives gathered for a funeral of 77 Bosnian Muslims and two Croats killed by Serb forces in 1992 and found in mass graves near the town of Brcko more then ten years after the war ended. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)
0 comments:
Post a Comment