Sunday, October 30, 2011
One of my favorite stories is of Viktor Frankl, a longtime prisoner, and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. He wrote “Man’s Search for Meaning”. In his book, he talks about how no one can take away your soul; “everything can be taken from a man but that one thing: IT is the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstances, to choose one’s own way”.
When I first heard Frankl’s quote and felt empowered by it. I am growing in my understanding of what “to choose one’s own way” means for me. At times, my mind can be a bit obsessive-compulsive, about matters or circumstances that I know rationally are not important to my life. In my persistent practice of only having loving thoughts in my mind, I am slowly able to change what’s going on up there.
I am the only one responsible for how I feel.
In Viktor’s book, he looks at the human condition, and what makes a man give up and what makes a man persevere?
According to Viktor, “striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man”.
Viktor goes on to say, “man is able to live and even to die for the sake of his ideals and values”.
I believe that we are all here to passionately serve one another in love.
I pray that today we choose love in all of our thoughts and all of our actions. We are one.
blessings & love,
