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Summary: What a great light Viktor Frankl was in our universe
Review: This is a beautiful, wonderful book about the salvation of man. A while ago I had done much research into the holocaust, and I find it very unfortunate I did not find this book then. Viktor Frankl was a man to whom life was beloved. He found meaning in his darkest hour, and lived to teach the world a great lesson. It is a novel about death and suffering, and those souls who decided to shine in a sea of darkness. It should be a mandatory read in our high schools, for all our youth, so that they may learn respect and be left amazed by a great man. A man by the name of Viktor Frankl.
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Summary: It has given me hope
Review: I was recently diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. I am 41 years old with two small children. I was finding it hard to find something to hold on to after getting the news. This book has helped put the cancer in perspective and is giving me the courage and encouragement to keep on living...no matter what. And if I die, then there has to be meaning in my life before then. I am now beginning to understand that I should not ask what can I get out of life, but what does life expect from me. This is a WONDERFUL and INSPIRATIONAL book that I recommend for anyone suffering from any tragic cirucmstance...cancer, death in the family, divorce, etc. All of the phsychiatric nonsense might help (I doubt it), but this book will get you on the right road.
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Summary: Applicable to any life situation
Review: When I sat down to read this book, the last thing I expected was a lesson in how to manage people; that's what I got though! I had just left an assignment whose management I had difficulties with, but couldn't really understand why. This book put in perspective for me everything that went wrong. It was also meaningful to my experience as an elementary school teacher, a daughter and sister, and every other role I have in life. I will read this book every few years at least, and expect it to apply to whatever situation I'm in. I didn't read the second part about logotherapy, though. The change was too abrubt for me.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I have read this book (but in translation to Thai language). This is a good book which can show you the way of how you should think and handle with your life. Writer's experience is so valueable and it's the good oppurtunity for us to know a part of this special man
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Summary: A definite "must have". . . . . . .
Review: Wow - what an exceptional book written by an exceptional man. If you read this book and still feel in despair because the waitress was too slow serving you, or your food was too cold at lunch time, you need to read it again. This is a story of the absolute "will" of the human spirit. If we have meaning to our lives, we can overcome anything. Victor Frankl is an absolute shining symbol of that human spirit. To overcome the horror and absolute hell on Earth of the Nazi Death Camps is itself a monument to the spirit of man but to then go on and help others grow and become more at peace with themselves through Logotherapy is absolutely amazing. Reading this book helps you put your life into perspective and helps you see the trivialities of the things that we sometimes spend too much time worrying about. I got soooooooooo much from this book and I will be reading it again. My advice - quit whining about things, don't buy the stuff off the T.V, just read this book.
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Summary: If you're searching--you'll find the meaning in this book!
Review: I don't exaggerate when I say this book changed my life. To comprehend what someone in a concentration camp went through, and then to see them become a better person from it is not only heart-warming, but inspirational as well. Frankl's essential message, that no matter what situation we find ourselves in we have the ability to choose our outlook and attitude, rings truer than I could have imagined. His thoughts and reflections have helped me shape my own outlook on life, and I have become a happier person as a result. I recommend this book to anyone of any age who understands that beyond all the hassles of everyday life there lies something more--something sacred inside ourselves that empowers us to be whatever we want to be.
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Summary: I just want to see what soom one else wrote
Review: I just want to see what someone else wrot
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Summary: Search No More
Review: I read this book at the bidding of a personal friend and colleague of Dr. Frankl's. Feeling depressed, hopeless, and agitated at the time, I couldn't imagine how a book could help. Not far into Dr. Frankl's story of the fathomless horrors of his existence in a Nazi concentration camp, I began to "get it." The most important lesson for me was the evidence of the power of the human psyche and spirit which I believe we all possess. This book lifted me in a way I could not have imagined, and I am grateful for having been referred to it. While I'm not a licensed psychologist, I would suggest that this book is a must read for anyone suffering from depression. Read it, and free your spirit!
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Summary: Everyone should read this book
Review: In general, only by going though hell and emerging out the other side can you have any profound insite in spiritual matters, such as the mother of all spiritual questions: What is the meaning of life? Nazi concentrations camps were about as hellish as life on earth can be. I read this book every few years, and every time I read it it seems to apply to my current life, and I always take away new insites. This book is divided into two parts: The first is a summary of Viktors awful experience in the concentration camps, and the second part is a philosphical and psychological descrition of logotherapy, and how it emerged from Viktor's experiences. Be prepared for this shift. In some ways, I wanted to continue to read about Viktor's experiences and felt the second part about logotherapy was an intrusion, but on balance I think it works perfectly.
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Summary: For those who seek to live life to the fullest...
Review: I find myself, in the images of my mind, retracing some familiar paths, as a young boy, having lived through the Vietnam war, succumbed by hunger and malnourishment, detached from a mother's love, distanced from brothers and sisters, far away from all that brings comfort and contentment to life. Yet somehow, through providential care, I knew, even as a youngster, that life must have meaning to both the fortunate as well as to the unfortunate, to the rich as the poor, to the privileged as the lowly. This meaning I have long understood. Viktor Frankl has helped me to see, even more clearly, the groaning of life itself, which yearns for meaning and purpose, even in the midst of unimaginable sufferings. Frankl said, "For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into songs by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry, human thoughts, and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is the through love and in love." My personal discovery has, furthermore, led me see the significance of what Blaise Pascal said with respect to the futility of a life, whose existence is without love, and that the highest expression of this love is ultimately found in God. He said, "I see the terrifying immensity of the universe which surrounds me, and find myself, limited to one corner of this vast expanse, without knowing why I am set down here rather than elsewhere, nor why the brief period for my life is assigned to me at this moment rather than another in all eternity that has gone before and will come after me. On all sides I behold nothing but infinity, in which I am a mere atom, a mere passing shadow that returns no more." Yes, without God, life is a mere existential vacuum in the great cosmos. I am struck with one curiosity about the book. I am not sure why Frankl often quoted Friedrich Nietze. According to historians (Paul Johnson; History of the Jews), Nietzche's philosophy was one of the impetus which brought about the rise of Germanic-centricity, or the attitude that German was a superior race, which tragically led to the horrifying oppression against the Jews.
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