Inspiration from Auschwitz
Posted by Doug Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:31:00 GMT
I’m on a mailing list run by one of my clients called E-nspirations. It’s a mostly periodic but somewhat infrequent mini-article written by Jean Kelley. Today’s message was prompted by the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Jean says, “The significance of this event sent me to my bookshelf where I found Victor Frankl’s Book, Man’s Search for Meaning.”The last of the human freedoms is to chose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. —Victor FranklI read Man’s Search for Meaning in college while I was studying in Vienna, Austria. It is a powerful book that I read during an pivotal time in my life. It’s message is old and familiar. I have had the “power to chose” drilled into me all my life. And yet, I still seem to forget it. I still seem to let my environment dictate my responses; or my moods swing back and forth. Remembering the horrors of Auschwitz and yet Frankl can make the above statement hits me particularly powerfully today.
