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May 16, 2011 - 7:39 pm
While I have been laying in hospital in pain i read the book below, it got my mind working. "A man's search for Meaning" by victor frankle "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" See the extract below, one of so many that touched me. this book is so rich and just what i needed. i hope you read the extract if your interested. i purchased the book online and then found the pdf online. I am going through a slightly contemplative phase at the moment. As my 11 months of treatments will be officially finished in 3 hours for my crc experience I can still hear the drip pumping in IV antibiotics, its clicks and squeaks. The sounds of the hospital, I won't forget. I recorded them. I hope I don't hear them anymore. I hope the passage below makes sense, if you like it i'd read the book. i enjoyed it! and I found it around the time I was worried about worry. Hugs, An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. If you want to read more search online its freely available, otherwise PM for PDF details |