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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Viktor E. Frankl

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Change Happiness Life
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Generation Men Our Prayer
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair Disease Mean Men
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks

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