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- Fundamentally, Dr. Frankl believed that there is meaning in every moment of our lives — up to our very last breath — and that it is our personal responsibility to find it. By example, he was able to find meaning in spite of, and because of, the suffering all around him.
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Mar 26, 2013 · In examining the “intensification of inner life” that helped prisoners stay alive, he considers the transcendental power of love: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self.
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Mar 26, 2019 · By living a life with meaning right to his last breath, Dr. Frankl showed us how his existential philosophy and therapeutic approach were grounded in practice.
May 17, 2020 · That selfsame year, the young Viennese neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) was taken to Auschwitz along with more than a million human beings robbed of the basic right to answer this question for themselves, instead deemed unworthy of living.
Apr 4, 2010 · Frankl writes: We can discover this meaning of life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering. The first, by way of achievement or accomplishment, is quite obvious.
- Take Responsibility
- Don’T Renounce Your Inner Freedom
- Allow Happiness to Emerge
Having a meaningful life, Frankl believed, begins with taking responsibility. Observing starving prisoners who gave away their meager bread rations, Frankl wrote, “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, to choose one’s own way.” If starving concen...
As purpose emerges when we take responsibility, so also Frankl believed, inner freedom comes from taking responsibility. At this moment, are you renouncing your inner freedom? Frankl observed, So strongly did Frankl believe that taking responsibility is a precursor to finding purpose and freedom that he proposed a Statue of Responsibilitybe built o...
In perhaps the most quoted passage from Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl’s wisdom is a prescription for modern times: Look around, how many people do you know who pursue success and happiness with little resolve as to their purpose. Their mind tricks them into believing their next purchase or their next relationship will fill their void. Chasing su...
Sep 7, 2023 · Logotherapy is a form of psychotherapy developed by Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. The word "logos" in Logotherapy refers to meaning or purpose, emphasizing the central focus of this therapeutic approach.
“If the prisoners of Buchenwald, tortured and worked and starved nearly to death, could find some hope in those lyrics despite their unending suffering, Frankl asks us, shouldn’t we, living far more comfortably, be able to say ‘Yes’ to life in spite of everything life brings us? ” — Daniel Goleman.
