"During my radiation treatment I read ]]Man's Search for Meaning]]. People said, Isn't that book depressing? But it wasn't. It was honest...Here is the lesson I learned from Frankl about his time in a concentration camp, an explanation of how certain people were able to continue on despite extreme darkness: “We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual.” We are all responsible for our actions, and our reactions. We are responsible for how we respond to situations we cannot control. (p 43)"
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