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I have said that man should not ask what he may expect from life, but should rather ask what life expects from him.
- The Doctor and The soul
Viktor E Frankl(Nazi concentration camp survivor and a doctor).
- The Doctor and The soul
Viktor E Frankl(Nazi concentration camp survivor and a doctor).
Facing your fate without flinching – is the highest achievement that has been granted to man.
‘Après moi, la bombe atomique!’
( "After me the Atom Bomb",people are rushing every day like atom bomb is falling behind them)
Contemporary man is used to living from one day the next. He learned to do so in the last world war, and since then this attitude has not been modified.
( "After me the Atom Bomb",people are rushing every day like atom bomb is falling behind them)
Contemporary man is used to living from one day the next. He learned to do so in the last world war, and since then this attitude has not been modified.
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of NIHILISTIC(who does not believe in religion) SCIENTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS.
Humility, if it is genuine, is certainly as much a sign of inner strength as courage.
Pascal long ago remarked that the branch can never grasp the meaning of the whole tree.
A domestic animal does not understand the purposes for which man employs it.
How then could man know what ‘final’ purpose his life has, what ‘super-meaning’ the universe has?
A domestic animal does not understand the purposes for which man employs it.
How then could man know what ‘final’ purpose his life has, what ‘super-meaning’ the universe has?
Universal principle of tension reduction which operates to reduce all tensions in everything .
Cosmos follow LAW OF ENTROPY to reduce tension.
Nirvana for humans might be considered the equivalent of Law of entropy for reduction of tensions.
Cosmos follow LAW OF ENTROPY to reduce tension.
Nirvana for humans might be considered the equivalent of Law of entropy for reduction of tensions.
Every human person constitutes something unique; each situation in life occurs only once. The concrete task of any person is relative to this uniqueness and singularity.
Thus every man at any given moment can have only one single task.
Thus every man at any given moment can have only one single task.
It sometimes happens that one task will not yield to man’s efforts, while another, with its complement of values, presents itself as an alternative.
Man must CULTIVATE the FLEXIBILITY to swing over to another value-group if that group and that alone offers the possibility of actualizing values.
Life requires of man SPIRITUAL ELASTICITY, so that he may TEMPER his EFFORTS to the CHANCES THAT ARE OFFERED.
Life requires of man SPIRITUAL ELASTICITY, so that he may TEMPER his EFFORTS to the CHANCES THAT ARE OFFERED.
The height of a mountain range is not given by the height of some valley, but by that of the tallest peak. In life, too, the peaks decide the meaningfulness of the life, and a single moment can retroactively flood an entire life with meaning.
Sometimes the demands of the hour may be fulfilled by an act, at another time by our surrendering to the glory of an experience.
At one time we are called upon, as it were, to enrich the world by our actions, another time to enrich ourselves by our experiences.
At one time we are called upon, as it were, to enrich the world by our actions, another time to enrich ourselves by our experiences.
The higher meaning of a given moment in human existence can be fulfilled by the mere intensity with which it is experienced, and independent of any action.
To the man that human freedom is not a ‘freedom from’ but a ‘freedom to’ – a freedom to accept responsibility.
Freedom comes from taking responsibility.
And if that responsibility is something one loves, outcome will be much more fabulous.
Freedom comes from taking responsibility.
And if that responsibility is something one loves, outcome will be much more fabulous.
‘And now tell me, maestro – what is the best move in chess?'
The chess master: ‘A chess-player must attempt, within the LIMITS OF HIS ABILITY and within the LIMITS IMPOSED BY HIS OPPONENT, to make the best move at any given time.’
The chess master: ‘A chess-player must attempt, within the LIMITS OF HIS ABILITY and within the LIMITS IMPOSED BY HIS OPPONENT, to make the best move at any given time.’
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
The destiny a person suffers therefore has a twofold meaning: to be shaped where possible, and to be endured where necessary.
It may be unreasonable to act in this way or that, but it would be outrageous not to act at all.
The man who can decide on nothing, can make up his mind about nothing at all, is undoubtedly making the most unscrupulous of decisions.
The man who can decide on nothing, can make up his mind about nothing at all, is undoubtedly making the most unscrupulous of decisions.
Pleasure belongs to that category of events which cannot be brought about by direct intention; on the contrary, it is a mere side-effect or by-product. Therefore, the more one strives for pleasure, the less one is able to attain it.
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The Doctor and soul.
Frankl
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The Doctor and soul.
Frankl
