Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Shapely Ankles |
Beyond Thar Be Dragons | |
2020 | Skyin’ |
2019 | I Hope He Has A Lot Of Room Down There |
2018 | What Time Is It? |
2017 | Gifts |
2016 | 30 Seconds |
2015 | Success |
2014 | Create The Fact |
2013 | Overpowering Curiosity |
2012 | On Planning The Invasion Of Iraq… |
2011 | This And That |
I’m Bettin’ On The Bible | |
Posts Tagged ‘Viktor E. Frankl’
Going Beyond
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Love, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Spiritual Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl on February 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Questioned By Life
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Action, Conduct, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Responsibility, The Meaning Of Life, Viktor E. Frankl on May 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life — daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Trying To Grow Pearls? |
2019 | Instantly Turned |
2018 | Sitting |
2017 | No Right Way |
2016 | Still Ticklish |
2015 | Maybe Sooner Than You Think |
2014 | The Path Of Mastery |
2013 | Love’s Ignorance |
2012 | Here’s To Enjoyment |
2011 | Not Just The Facts, Ma’am |
Making Potential Come True
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Human Potential, Leadership, Love, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Viktor E. Frankl on September 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Duration Unknown |
Day 6: Almost There | |
2018 | Just Trying To Be Me |
Day 39: Half This Game Is 90% Mental | |
2017 | A Letter To 45 |
Some Small Place | |
2016 | REDs |
2015 | Cities |
2014 | Still |
2013 | Dare = Hope |
2012 | Check My Math |
2011 | Just Asking |
I Choose Justice And Mercy
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Bread, Circumstances, Human Freedoms, Philosophy, Quotes, Viktor E. Frankl on June 28, 2020| 2 Comments »
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they 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, to choose one’s own way. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Close, Sustained, Careful, Daily |
2018 | One Brick At A Time |
2017 | Order The Rope, #DumbDonald |
2016 | Chains Of Habit |
2015 | That You Shall Remain |
Did You See That? | |
2014 | True, Vibrant And Open |
2013 | Remembering, Yet Again |
2012 | Something Of Value |
2011 | Sleep All Day |
I Think I’ve Been Blurred
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Human Dignity, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Usefulness, Viktor E. Frankl on May 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »
But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Progress On The Honey Do List |
And It’s Mostly Free, Too! | |
2017 | Both Dismissed |
2016 | Poetry Isn’t Going To Work |
2015 | MA Fix |
Getting Better | |
2014 | Actually |
2013 | Unfortunate Evolutionary Accidents |
2012 | Tense (Past, Present And Future) |
2011 | What Is Your Preference? |
In The Long-Run
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Happiness, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Success, Viktor E. Frankl on March 1, 2019| 1 Comment »
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 a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run — in the long-run, I say! — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | #NeverAgain |
Doss II | |
Doesn’t / Does | |
2017 | Talent Hates To Move |
2016 | Looking To November |
2015 | It Isn’t The End |
Prospero’s Precepts | |
2014 | Friends |
2013 | Learning Bitter |
2012 | Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War |
May I Have More Happiness, Please? | |
2011 | There Is No God, But God |
2010 | Another Running Book… |
Last
Posted in Charities, Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Bread, Charity, Concentration Camps, Human Freedoms, Philosophy, Quotes, Viktor E. Frankl, Viktor Frankl on August 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they 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, to choose one’s own way. | |
— Viktor Frankl | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Could You Repeat The Question? |
2016 | Still Busy? |
2015 | Why, Just This Morning… |
2014 | Just Kindness |
2013 | Now Shaking |
2012 | Absurdity, n. |
2011 | Minor Changes |
Things I’ve Learned From Life – Nana Carter | |
Acting Out | |
I Have Realities In My Past
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Man's Search for Meaning, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Quotes, Viktor E. Frankl on April 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? | |
‘No, thank you,’ he will think. ‘Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.’ | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Did I See You In Chapter 13? |
2016 | As I Recall |
2015 | Less And More Irritation |
2014 | That Marvelous Feeling |
2013 | Exceptional |
2012 | A Wild And Crazy Believer |
2011 | A Lack Of Scarcity |
The Joy Of Prevention | |
I’m Seeing It, Too
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Love, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth, Viktor E. Frankl, Wisdom on August 23, 2017| 4 Comments »
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From his book: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Personal Decisions |
2015 | Verbal Fluency |
2014 | Familiar |
2013 | Unbending |
2012 | Simple Sayings |
2011 | Wupped Again? |
2010 | 3 and 1… |
Musical Notes… | |
Doubt Tries… | |
Northwest Passages – Evening Two | |
The Beierly’s Web Site | |
Be Responsible
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Freedom, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Responsibility, Viktor E. Frankl on August 15, 2017| 3 Comments »
Without responsibility to something outside of himself, man is not able to be free. Responsibility is the criterion of freedom. | |
— Viktor E. Frankl | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Thinking About November 8th, 2016 |
2015 | Lonely Teardrops |
2014 | Pleasurable Law |
2013 | Room For Justice |
In The Minds Of Others | |
2012 | Extinction, n. |
2011 | Snap! |