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November 2009 
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thank you for this question - “how will you respond?” I am going to sit with it in love :)
Thanks, Azyh. For me, it is the I interpret answering Viktor Frankl's logotherapy question: what is life asking of you? Life asks us to respond to all sorts of things, and we have the choice on how we will respond.
Ain't that it? (That's how I say it here in the south) ;-D
And I take full responsibility for all that enters my life – especially you guys!
Your blog made me stop and think. I like Frankl's question. I've read about Frankl, but never read “Man's Search for Meaning.” Will get it from Amazon or the library. Can't remember hearing the term “logotherapy”. Tell me more….or should I just google it? ;>)
hi, mimi – “logos” is a root Greek word that has several definitions: meaning, thought, word, rationale. Essentially, Frankl had developed logotherapy as a form of therapy that helps people find their way through life by defining their own meaning. He wrote the book “The Doctor and the Soul” before being sent to the concentration camps and then reconstructed it afterward. It is what helped him survive. After his liberation, he wrote “Man's search for meaning” which speaks to examples during his imprisonment where his search for meaning within the most desperate (and meaningless) circumstances brought him comfort and peace simply through how he chose to respond (think) to his experience. Both books are worth reading, although “The Doctor and the Soul” is mostly about the use of logotherapy as a psychotherapy while “Man's Search for Meaning” is using logotherapy to grow into more of yourself being no matter what is going on around you.
I'm with Barbara, Frankl's “Mans Search for Meaning” is the best starting point for his works. I just ordered a copy to be sent to Jeff. You'd probably enjoy Mimi.
I think it will be such a support for Jeff, John. It must be hard for him to find any meaning in his experience right now and after his release. And, mimi, you know that there are all sorts of prisons: real and imaginary – those we create with our materials and those we create with our own thoughts.