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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl spent three years in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and later Dachau concentration camps (1942 – 1945). His mother and his brother Walter died at Auschwitz. His wife was moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she died. The only other survivor among his immediate family was his sister, Stella, who had emigrated to Australia. He published Man’s Search for Meaning<\/em> in 1946.<\/p>\n

Frankl concludes that the meaning of life is in every moment of living. Life never ceases to have meaning, even in suffering and death. He observed that a prisoner’s psychological reactions are not simply the result of his treatment, but from how he chooses to respond. The hold that a prisoner has on his inner self requires having hope in the future; if he loses that hope, he is doomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl spent three years in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and later Dachau concentration camps (1942 – 1945). His mother and his brother Walter died at … <\/p>\n

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