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Man's Search for Meaning Dr. Viktor Frankl (Logotherapy)

Hi folks,

I just finished reading the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. This is one of best books I have ever read so far, and recommend you to read the same. I am quoting some of the inspirational quotes that I appreciated most:

• "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." - Dr. Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning, p.172
• He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how - Nietzsche
• That which does not kill me, makes me stronger - Nietzsche
• Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
• Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Dr. Victor Frankl faced the devastating experience of being a prisoner in a German concentration camp. In spite of all extremities, he managed to survive and continued to find life meaningful and worthwhile. He later founded a philosophical and psychological way of healing called Logotherapy- therapy through meaning.

According to Logotherapy, we can discover the meaning in life in three different ways:

1. Through what we receive from life, what we take from life, what life gives us, what we experience (Experiential values)
2. Through what we give to the world in and through what we do, what we contribute, what we add to life, what we create (Creative values)
3. Through the attitude we take when we are faced with situations in which we can do absolutely nothing as in the case of an incurable disease, or being stricken with blindness, or losing a leg. (Attitudinal values)

A nice article on logotherapy is available at http://www.jca.apc.org/~iyuzo/Logotherapy1.htm

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Life Life to the Fullest :-)

Ballu