A friend of mine told me a parable about bamboo that she had translated from a book by Olivier Clerc. Deeply moved by this story, I decided to pass it on, adding my own commentary. The parable is brief: “They say that in China, there grows a very special variety of bamboo. If we plant […]
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21.07.2011
Suffering Enough to See
“If you feel like a victim who has no power to change the situation, it proves that there is something within you that you are not yet ready to look at. Therefore, you will remain a victim for as long as it takes to suffer enough, until you finally decide to see the beam in […]
19.07.2011
Kathryn Schulz On Being Wrong
This is an eye-opening seventeen-minute presentation that is worth watching. If you choose to set aside the time and reach the image of the man walking in the air having just run off a cliff, I invite you also to read how life appears when it is not lived from the inner side of the […]
15.07.2011
But let there be spaces in your togetherness
“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one […]
07.07.2011
Avoid paralysis at all costs
“Fears are nothing more than states of mind. Napoleon Hill said that, and he was right. The moment you feel that you are afraid of something, ask yourself, ‘Why am I making this real? What is it inside of me that is making me do this?’ There is a huge difference between fear and caution. […]
01.07.2011
The inverted ego and the need for control
“You can recognize the dominance of the ego by the need for control. For example, when you want certain people to behave in a certain way. To make this happen, you use specific patterns of behavior. For instance, you are compliant, pleasant, and you try never to hurt anyone’s feelings. Behind such behavior lies the […]
29.06.2011
Having been is the surest kind of being
“Among the things that seem to deprive human life of meaning is not only suffering, but also dying. I never tire of repeating that the only truly transitory aspects of human life are its potentialities. But at the moment they are realized, they become realities; they are preserved and handed over to the past, where […]
28.06.2011
True freedom is not freedom from conditions
“Certainly, the human being is finite, and his freedom is limited. It is not freedom from conditions, but freedom to take a stand toward the conditions. As I once formulated it: ‘As a professor in two fields – neurology and psychiatry – I am fully aware of the degree to which the human being is […]
27.06.2011
The challenge to join the minority
Here are more reflections shared by the founder of logotherapy, Viktor Frankl, from his book Man’s Search for Meaning. This time, the theme is the choices we make in difficult situations, because it is precisely then that we discover whether we live what we preach. “Sigmund Freud once claimed: ‘Let someone try to subject a […]
24.06.2011
What Is the Main Concern of Man?
Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, was once asked by an American physician what the difference between psychoanalysis and logotherapy was – in a single sentence. Realizing how impossible it was to answer such a complex question in one sentence, Frankl replied that he would tell him, but only if the doctor first told him, […]
23.06.2011
The existential vacuum and the boredom
“The existential vacuum manifests itself primarily in a state of boredom. We can now understand Schopenhauer when he says that mankind is apparently condemned forever to vacillate between the two extremes of excitement and boredom. It is a fact that today boredom causes, and certainly confronts psychiatrists with, more problems to solve than excitement. These […]
22.06.2011
Logotherapy: The Will to Meaning
Logotherapy is a method of psychotherapy created by the Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl. According to him, the search for meaning is the primary motivation in human life, and when this need is not fulfilled, human beings suffer. In order to describe the specificity of this form of suffering, and to distinguish it from […]
