Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl concludes with his explanation of "Logotherapy in a Nutshell". Logo, Greek word for "meaning" is easy for me to comprehend. In a sentence: We are asked and are to answer, what the meaning of our life is; not that we search for the meaning of life.
Individually, the question is put to us, by life, over and over in different ways. The essence of our existence is in our responsibleness to ourselves. By living, loving, or suffering, we answer the question. The answer is different for every soul.
Those who will not find the answer do what other people do (conformism) or they do what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).
Life's Transitoriness
"...the only really transitory aspects of life are the potentialities: but as soon as they are actualized, they are rendered realities at that very moment; they are saved and delivered into the past, wherein they are rescued and preserved from transitoriness. For, in the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything irrevocably stored."
And
"...At any moment, man bust decide, for better or worse, what will be the monument of his existence."
Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search For Meaning an introduction to Logotherapy
$12.95 at Barnes and Noble (general psychology section)
I will become aware of a meaning worth living to fill the void left by the loss of my son Aaron.
Peace
Tom
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