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The tightrope walk was an act of creation that seemed to stand in direct defiance to the act of destruction twenty-seven years later. About Let the Great World Spin

A priest? I said. --A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis. --Theologian, said the other. --One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.

the way he spoke was magical, but after a while even his voice began to grate and he began to remind me of the colors of the walls in the hotel rooms in which he stayed...

funk. The official cause of death, given by

That's when that idiot viscount handed the rebuilding of Fairborough Hall off to that overbearing female.

Did you take a vow of poverty or something? This is a housedress, Malloy, she said, indignant again. I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From my mother. Did your mother take a vow of poverty?

Le Silence est la Poésie même pour moi.

Suffering is intended to guard man from apathy, from psychic rigor mortis.

The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.

As a psychiatrist, Frankl avoided direct reference to his personal religious beliefs. He was fond of saying that the aim of psychiatry was the healing of the soul, leaving to religion the salvation of the soul.

I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

We had to strive to lead them back to this truth, or the consequences would have been much worse than the loss of a few thousand stalks of oats.

More and more, a psychiatrist is approached today by patients who confront him with human problems rather than neurotic symptoms.

Apart from that strange kind of humor, another sensation seized us: curiosity.

I did not threaten him; I only showed surprise in still finding him here when I planned to meet him tonight in Teheran," said Death.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud.

Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.

Psychotherapy would not only reflect a nihilistic philosophy but also, even though unwillingly and unwittingly, transmit to the patient what is actually a caricature rather than a true picture of man. First

Frankl is credited with establishing logotherapy as a psychiatric technique that uses existential analysis to help patients resolve their emotional conflicts. He stimulated many

That's where your friend is, floating up to Heaven

boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.

Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance–as whether one escapes or not–ultimately would not be worth living at all.

Logotherapy, or, as it has been called by some authors, "The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man's search for such a meaning.