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(The consciousness of one’s inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?)
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.
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 tasks which it c...
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realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them.
“I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space.”
According to logotherapy, this striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.
