Fankl, Choices to make
Saturday, November 14, 2015
3:25 PM
"We who lived in concentration campus can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.  They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficent proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing:  the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
"And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hours, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to robe you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate" (Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning).  