After reading "Living the Meaning of Life

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Life itself is meaningless, what we give him meaning, we will have what kind of meaning. Due to the different individuals, we can not define a certain value is the most optimal, on the contrary, it is because of the different people, so there will be different fantastic life, constituting our colorful world.

Suffering we can not choose, but how to face the suffering is what we can choose, just as we face the epidemic, the epidemic is we can not choose, we can do is how to face the epidemic, is to complain or positive face? The choice is in our hands, people have always had the freedom to choose their attitudes and behavioral styles in any environment. Nietzsche once said that those who know what they live for, survive.

The author created meaning therapy, in which he argues that being responsible is the essence of human existence. We can discover the meaning of life in three different ways:

One, by creating a job or engaging in a career.

Two, by experiencing something or facing someone (pursuing truth, goodness, and beauty or falling in love with someone).

Three, by adopting a certain attitude in enduring inevitable suffering.

I hope you and I can find the meaning of our existence and live out the meaning of our lives.

Freud once said, "If a certain number of people of all shapes and sizes were placed in a state of starvation, with the intensification of starvation, all their personal differences would be extinguished, and in their place would be the same expression of hunger." Freud did not experience life in the concentration camps firsthand. His subject matter was all centered on the fluffy Victorian style couches that Viktor Frankl used to personally experience the squalid concentration camps of Auschwitz Reply Individual differences didn't die out, on the contrary, people's differences became even greater. No one wanted to hide anything, be they swine or saints.

The most profound insight is the book's reference to the third aspect of the tragic trinity, which deals with death, but also with life, because every moment of life involves death, and every moment is never repeated. So, isn't this fleeting nature of life the perfect prompter to make us live every moment of it as well as we can? It surely is, and so I offer a word of advice: enjoy your life now as if you were living it a second time, and don't act and live it wrongly, as you did in your first life.

Finally, the most important way to face death as I do is the third way: even as a helpless victim in a desperate situation, faced with a doom that cannot be changed, one can still transcend oneself and in this way change oneself.

This is the whole point and fulcrum of what I want to practice!

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I wanted to think of a suitable main title, but couldn't find one. The title of the book itself is the best - Living the Meaning of Life. The publisher categorized the book's shelf suggestion as "spiritual, inspirational".

A friend gave me this book and it sat there for about a year before I read it the other day. I can't help but think I should have read it sooner, but it's still not too late. The book has been translated into 24 languages and sold 12 million copies. The one I read is already the 15th printing of the 1st edition in 20xx in China, which is enough to prove the value of this book. Writing this text, also really want to recommend it again to more friends. In a lifetime, everyone has dark moments, may we all find a little bit of their own light at that time.

The book begins with this introduction to the author - the famous psychologist Frankl is a miracle of the 20th century. During the Nazi era, as a Jew, his entire family was imprisoned in Auschwitz, where his parents, his wife, his brother, all died in the gas chambers, and only he and his sister survived. Frankl not only transcended this purgatory-like pain, but also combined his own experience with academics, pioneering meaning therapy, for people to find the meaning of desperate regeneration, but also left the history of human nature, the most colorful testimony ...... The whole book has only two parts, the first part is the experience in the camps, and the second part of the author's psychological profession of "meaning therapy". "meaning therapy", and the first part takes up 70% of the pages of the book. In my opinion, the 70% of the experience is a kind of "psychotherapy", and the "methodology" of the second part is just the icing on the cake.

While reading this book, I couldn't help but think that bitterness and happiness should be relative. There is no lower limit to suffering. The bitterness you feel is not the most bitter, because there are always people who are more bitter than us, and we ourselves will always encounter the bitterness that breaks our limits again and again. Near the end of the first part of the book there is a scene where people who have suffered in prison are finally free, but when they are asked if they are happy, the answer is no. The author says that they have lost the ability to feel. The author says that they have lost the ability to feel joy. This is the end of one pain, with the beginning of another, albeit this one after regaining freedom. And the opposite of suffering is joy. There should be a ceiling to joy, or rather, the highest level of joy is a kind of peace. As the book says: the most important experience for the inmates coming home is that after all the suffering they have endured, he no longer fears anything but God, and that experience has an unparalleled and wonderful feeling.

We often have the mentality of comparing ourselves with others in our lives, and we often see the phenomenon of comparison in others. If the comparison is divided into two kinds, one is the upward climb, and the other is to compare who is worse off. The latter phenomenon seems to be more common. The upward comparison is mostly for others to recognize oneself, and the downward comparison is mostly for gaining sympathy from others. This reminds me of the clip in Stephen Chow's movie "Tong Pak Fu Po Po Chau Heung", in which a comparison is made to see who is worse off in order to get into the Wah Fu as a servant. The result of this kind of comparison is often a feeling of being even worse off, with a cycle of pessimism. If a comparison is really needed, the kind of life in a concentration camp, no, that shouldn't be called a life, that state should be one of the extremes that human beings go through. And in his way, Frankl shows us that even in the most extreme of dire situations, "as long as we have the freedom to make our own choices about how to respond to our situation, we are not left with nothing."

Each of us will have our own journey in life. The road is neither flat nor straight. Suffering and happiness alternately, life ups and downs is normal. The experience of the concentration camps in the book is actually a miniature of life. For people with poor tolerance, even the small ups and downs of the peace era may be overwhelmed. And that's when - "We need to realize that the meaning of life encompasses the broader cycle of suffering from birth to death." In the most desperate times, tell yourself that you are irreplaceable and that you have your responsibilities - "Realize your responsibility to a loved one or unfinished business, and you will never abandon your life." This reminds me of the book's statement that there was a strict rule in the camps that forbade the resuscitation of people who had attempted suicide. ......

The second part of the book is about "meaning therapy". The purpose of meaning therapy is to help the patient find meaning in his life, and the best example of this is the first part of the book. I have marked the article in the subsection "The Meaning of Life". The author says that the meaning of life is different for each person, each day, each moment, so it is not the universality of the meaning of life that is important, but the particular meaning of life for each person at a given moment. A lifetime is long, and at all times it is a challenge, and each challenge is a meaning; the meaning of life is not actually fixed, but is constantly subverted. Therefore, the author's therapy of meaning argues that being responsible is the essence of human existence. The book goes on to describe the "meaning of love," the "meaning of suffering," and the "super-meaning," which will not be described again.

The value of a book does not lie in the fact that everything in it is useful to us. Rather, it is a certain chapter, a certain paragraph, or even a certain sentence that can make you light up when you read here! Finally, I would like to share a few memorable quotes as a conclusion:

Quotes from Living the Meaning of Life:

1. "Some uncontrollable force may take away a lot of things, but the only thing it can't take away from you is the freedom to make your own choices about how to respond to different situations. You can't control what happens in your life, but you can control your own emotions and actions in the face of those things."

2. "My original intention was simply to convey to the reader, through concrete examples, the idea that life has meaning under all conditions, even in the most dire circumstances."

3. "We ourselves must answer those questions that life poses to us, and to answer those questions we must take responsibility for life."

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A lot of things are not read, this book is needed to keep turning the pages, right. However, there are two points is a little understanding of some, one is the existence of life is to be responsible for the responsibility, as a child's responsibility, as a husband or wife's responsibility, the responsibility of parents and so on, you play a role in this society to assume the role and enjoy the fun in various roles, should be the significance of your life. However, if it is a mentally handicapped person or mental anomaly (born or acquired), what is their responsibility, if there is no responsibility, is their life meaningless, or is the discussion limited to people who can think normally?

Secondly, experiencing suffering can give you a better understanding of the meaning of life, such as the author from the concentration camps nine deaths to realize the meaning of life, like running (of course, this can not be called suffering) when you are short of breath, dry mouth, legs sore, the head actually think of `only how to insist on how to improve the speed of 1 second, how to more than 100 meters, and constantly adhere to the breakthroughs, you will find that Sweating after the relief, suddenly found the original running so happy, slowly your physical and mental state is getting better and better, oh, this is the meaning of running, probably may Frankel is the meaning of it. The human life for all kinds of pain and discomfort is a complete hold, just more and more comfortable conditions so that more people forget the pattern of suffering, the meaning of life only stays in the fulfillment of the desire. so, the meaning of living in the meaning of what is it

Nearly a month's time to read the book "Living the Meaning of Life," the author is The author is the famous American psychologist Vidocq Frankl, with his personal experience in the concentration camps, about the suffering and death for the meaning of life, put forward the psychological "focus on the future" of the meaning of therapy.

"Life has meaning under all conditions" "Don't just think about success; the more you think about success, the more likely you are to fail. Success, like happiness, can be achieved. It is a natural product, a derivative born when a person unconsciously devotes himself to a great cause, or a by-product of dedication to others."

In the face of adversity, you can complain can be negative, the decision is in your hands, the decision of the different, but also determines your final results and in the different, like the author finally not only live to escape the clutches of, change unfavorable into favorable. "There is one thing you can not take from the hands of people, that is the most valuable freedom, people have always had the freedom to choose their own attitudes and ways of behavior in any environment." "Freedom is the negative side of human life, while its positive side is responsibility. In fact. If man cannot live responsibly, then freedom degenerates into permissiveness. "Mental health depends on a certain degree of tension - that is, the tension between what has been accomplished and what remains to be accomplished, or the gap between the present state and the ideal state." "What man actually needs is not a state free from tension, but effort and struggle in pursuit of some freely chosen and worthy goal. What it needs is not the elimination of tension without questioning its cost, but secondly, the call of some underlying meaning that remains to be accomplished by him.

Nietzsche said that "he who knows what he lives for, lives" and that "a sudden loss of courage leads to death". Circumstances have an impact on people, but ultimately they are the result of autonomous decisions. There are three ways to find meaning in life: first, by creating or doing something; second, by experiencing something or confronting someone, that is, by finding meaning not only in work but also in love; and most importantly, by being able to transcend oneself even when one is a helpless victim of a desperate situation, faced with irrevocable doom and in so doing transform oneself and turn a personal tragedy into a triumph. If suffering can be avoided, it makes sense to eliminate its causes, because to suffer unnecessarily is not so much an act of heroism as it is self-abuse. This means that suffering is not indispensable to discovering the meaning of life.

"Define man as a species that can get used to anything," e.g., being unemployed is not the same as being useless, and being useless is not the same as living a meaningless life. Apathy, slowness, lack of concern for anything, the condition of the prisoner, the loss of the ability to feel pleasure, can only be cultivated slowly." "The main manifestation of the Void of Existence is boredom, which is much more problematic than anxiety, which in moderation allows one to work harder to change that anxiety, unlike boredom, which manifests itself in negative emotions."

Cherish and enjoy the various encounters that life offers you, Let it go free.

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Recently, I have been reading very seriously, because I feel that life is very empty and meaningless, and I hope that I can find the meaning of life in a book, and I saw that the recommendation was written that this book can help those who are lost, so I bought a copy of it, and spent three days reading it. It took me three days to finish reading it. I don't know if I don't know how to read, but I didn't get the effect I wanted from this book, but it is undeniably a good book, which points out the reason why people feel life is meaningless nowadays - the emptiness of existence.

Because of the change of tradition, there is no guideline to guide people's behavior, so there is no direction, do not know what to do, do not know how to do, after a week of work, the weekend's nothing to do, began to become restless is the best proof, and to get rid of this sense of nothingness is the best way to find the meaning of life.

And the way to find the meaning of life is to give yourself a goal and then try to reach it? Frankl believes that obviously not, that is just a part of life, not the driving force of life, the essence of human existence is responsible. There is no way to summarize the meaning of life in one sentence, and there is no so-called magic formula, it is different because of different people, different experiences, different environments, like playing chess, you can not say that the move is good, before the beginning of the can be said that no move is good, and like the author, in Auschwitz, in inhumane conditions, the next moment do not know where they will be, whether they will still be Alive, with no plan, no direction and no goal, Frankl still managed to survive, supported by his responsibilities: his family and unfinished business.

Frankl said that the meaning of life can be found in three ways:

1. By creating a job or engaging in a career, is the achievement or success.

2. By experiencing something or facing someone, it is to love mo person.

3. To adopt a certain attitude in enduring inevitable suffering.

The first should be well understood, because it is the universally recognized meaning of life: the success achieved, whether in terms of wealth or in terms of status of reputation. For the second it is seen entirely from an individual point of view, perhaps the miracle of life just because there is someone who loves or is in love with mo individual. The third is not advocating that we should find suffering to bear, that is called self-abuse, on the contrary, and should automatically create conditions away from suffering, just a lot of times life is not smooth sailing, in the face of difficulties should be taken for a positive attitude, that is, tragic optimism, in the face of suffering to sublimate themselves.

Now there are too many people will be the significance of their own life is all attributed to the first, and achieve their expected results of very few, even if some people have achieved success in the eyes of outsiders, or there will be inexplicable emptiness and restlessness.

After reading this book, although I seem to understand, but I feel that it is a true statement, but their own thinking is not at that level, there is no way to understand the deeper meaning of the back of the time will read again, I hope that the next time you can be more by the harvest, although I do not believe that reading a book can change a person's destiny, but I believe that reading a book can be penetrated through some of their own ideas, some doubts, the following sentence is a few words. Ideas, certain doubts, the following sentences taken from the book,

1, man is not one of many things, things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determined. What he becomes - within the limits of his gifts and circumstances - is the result of his own decision.

2. Freedom is the negative side of man, and its positive is responsibility. In fact, if man cannot live responsibly, then freedom degenerates into permissiveness.

3. People ultimately decide their own destiny. People are not simply living, but they need to judge their own future from time to time, and decide what kind of person they will be at the next moment.

4. Happiness is (and always has been) an add-on, and if this add-on becomes an end in itself, it will be detracted from.

5. It doesn't matter what we expect from life, but what life expects from us.

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Xu Yunlong

Perhaps we all ask the question, "What is the purpose of living?" I have likewise asked myself. I sometimes feel that my existence has little significance, especially in the most painful times, when everything seems to have little to do with me. The contrast between the cruelty of reality and the beauty of the ideal is too great to bear.

When I picked up this book, I saw a movie called "The Boy Who Wore Stripes to Bed". Germany's brutalization of the Jews made itself indignant at their behavior in this way.

The book begins with the experience of the concentration camps. There is no doubt about it: no one who has not really experienced that kind of life can really feel the pain of being in a concentration camp. They were thankful to be able to continue to do the heavy labor that they were required to do every day without enough to eat. The days when they could face beatings and death at any time make it impossible to imagine how much the spiritual life of the people was ravaged read Living the Meaning of Life read epub read epub. How many of them can not despair in the face of endless days of pain?

However, there is no lack of strong-willed people among them. Viktor? Frankl is one of them. He wrote a book that inspired many and arguably saved many.

When people living in that kind of environment can be brave enough to survive, and we have such a good life today, why are there still so many light-hearted people? Perhaps when they see this book, they should know that there are many, many more people than their own pain, but they are still determined to live. Why can't they do it themselves?

The meaning of life lies in their own constantly given, people can only live to have more and more, otherwise everything is empty talk. We should do addition arithmetic to life again and again, instead of always doing subtraction arithmetic.

This book also made me realize that it is not the smartest people who are successful. Because success is determined more by non-intellectual factors: clear goals, a positive mindset, hard work and perseverance, the ability to withstand setbacks and stress. Being an always optimistic and positive person is not an easy and simple task. People who can still stick to their values and go on when there is no hope in sight are remarkable. Anyone who does a positive job may not feel that he is significant, but his significance does exist, and the goodness of society is built by laborers at all levels*** together. Their own work is insignificant, that is just a feeling, you do even more ordinary work has contributed a little power for society.

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The author of The Meaning of Living is Mr. Viktor Frankl, a prisoner awaiting execution in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II. Through that inhuman experience, he finds out the meaning of life's extinction, and composes the pain of purgatory into the music of love and hope. But more than 200 pages of small open book, is Frankl's life dedication, words flashing the wisdom of human masters, sentence can touch the soul of mankind.

After reading the book in one breath, I began to excerpt, copying nearly 40 pages of book notes still do not want to put pen to paper, hate to copy the whole book. I really think everyone deserves to read this book, you and I may not have the same harvest, but I believe that after reading this book, you will have gained, harvesting the sense of life and the power of life.

I've heard of Frankl many times before reading this book, and I've always wondered how the author managed to survive the concentration camps.

The number of people who survived the camps was one in twenty-eight, less than 4%! And of those who survived, many were the heads of the prisoners who held some power and resources, the ones who were also prisoners but were chosen to be in charge of guarding the prisoners, and these were even better off than they were before they were incarcerated, and these were even more brutal than the guards. As prisoners in general, many were devoured by the incinerator, many lost their lives to malignant diseases, but there were also many who ended their lives themselves because they had lost the meaning of life and were unable to support themselves to live.

There were indeed too many flukes to survive. When the author looks back on life in the concentration camps, he also counts down what lives were at stake, and four flukes stand out as particularly impressive to read about.

One of the flukes: straightening his back saved his life. After arriving at the camp from the train, the prisoners were divided into left and right, and without the prisoners' knowledge, the SS selected relatively young and strong people by feel, the right side all the way to labor, while the left side all the way directly to the incinerator. Because of the fear of the SS to find out their own body hidden backpack, the author made a strong straight back, precisely this action saved his life, before being hesitant SS officers finally determined to let him into the right side of the team.

Fluke No. 2: Listening won the favor of the prisoner's head. On the way to work at the site, the author listened carefully to the love story and marital troubles of the big prisoner head. The author diagnosed his character from a professional point of view and gave him advice based on spiritual healing, thus making a good impression on him and even winning his gratitude. In life, he received a lot of care from the head of the big prisoner, such as being able to sleep in the first five rows, escaping from a terrorist mission, and even being able to get a bowl of soup with peas in it, which helped the author to preserve his life. You can see that having a skill can save your life when it matters.

Fluke #3: Going with the flow allowed him to escape death. Transportation of sick people to rest camps often went to the incinerator, and when the author was assigned to such a task, his cellmate, who was the head doctor, had to help him change down, which meant that someone was dying for him. The author did not want this to happen and wanted everything to go his way, even if it meant going to his death. He made serious goodbyes to his friends and left last words for his family. But fortunately, the transport really went to the rest camp, while the inmates who stayed in the original camp died almost entirely because of the famine.

Fluke #4: Forgotten by death the night before liberation. The day before they were liberated, the International Red Cross arrived at the camp, and the prisoners finally looked forward to liberation. The SS became so friendly all of a sudden, and arranged for trucks to be sent to Switzerland to exchange prisoners of war, and the prisoners happily got on the trucks and ran to freedom. The author and a few others were forgotten and could not squeeze into the trucks to leave, and the desperate few spent their last night in the camp. Only later did they realize that fate had played another joke on the prisoners, and that all the inmates who got on the trucks were burned by the Nazis, and the author once again had a lucky escape from death.

The fluke that befell the author was a necessary and prerequisite for survival, but in order to survive, the most important thing is to have love, humor, and meaning in one's life.

Love for his wife is the most important support in life. Whether enduring physical pain or the torture of guards, whether in the early morning haze or in the dark winter night, the author is always thinking of his wife, his thoughts resting on her figure, imagining that she will respond to his words, so that he truly realized: love is the highest goal of mankind's lifelong pursuit.

Art and humor breathe life. Late at night on the 24th birthday of the author's wife, a dance tune played by a violin awakens the drowsy author, and not only his body, but also his soul. In addition to this, humor is another weapon for the soul to preserve itself. Humor mitigates the damage caused by the ordeal and makes one ignore the hardship and transcend the misery. One might think that there can be humor in a concentration camp? The author presents us with valuable humor through his experiences and perspective. The author made a pact with his cellmates to make up at least one funny story for each other every day. For example, he predicts that at a dinner after they left the camp, they forgot who they were and asked the hostess if they could "take a spoonful out of the bottom of the pot" when she was sharing the soup. The author maintains his ability to be happy through these self-invented stories of humor.

Gratitude dilutes the concentration of pain. What is there to be grateful for in a concentration camp full of trials and tribulations? Precisely because life is full of pain, a very trivial little thing can bring joy, even great joy in life, to the inmates. The author records many things to be thankful for, the most impressive of which is the experience of being transferred to another camp: on the train to another camp, it was noticed that the train was on the bridge to the Mauthaus camp, which was a death camp, but the train didn't stop and went straight to the Dachau camp, a camp without a "stove". The inmates therefore dance joyfully in the carriages. There is also a scene in which people catch lice in a shack with icicles, and are grateful because the light is still on.

The meaning of life gave him the strength to challenge. While incarcerated, the author pondered the meaning to be gained from his ordeal, often imagined introducing his students to prisoner psychology, and used what he thought to aid his fellow inmates. When the manuscript of his "The Doctor and the Soul: An Introduction to Meaning Therapy" was confiscated, the desire to rewrite the book helped him overcome extreme trials and tribulations. The author is convinced that rewriting his confiscated book in the darkness of a Bavarian concentration camp helped him avoid the risk of cardiovascular collapse from typhoid fever.

The author does not dwell much on the ordeal, but we can still feel it through the author's fragmentary recollections, and how powerful it is that the author was able to retain the power of choice in the midst of such an ordeal!

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Living the Meaning of Life! What is the meaning of life? The author mentions in the text that no doctor can answer this question in general terms. Because the meaning of life is different for each person, each day, each moment, what is important is not the universality of the meaning of life, but the particular meaning of life for each person at a particular moment. The tasks of each person's life are specific, and so are the opportunities for accomplishing them. Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but must recognize that it is life that asks him questions, and that he must answer life's questions through his understanding of his own life. He can only assume his own responsibility towards life.

A person who responds positively to life's problems is like a person who tears off a calendar and puts it neatly on top of the pile, but also writes a few lines of diary on the back. He can proudly and happily recall all the fulfilling days noted in his diary, all the lives he has lived.

Man is not one of many things. Things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determined. What he becomes, within the limits of his gifts and circumstances, is the result of his own decision. Which he ultimately manifests is the result of the decision, not the product of his environment.

The chief manifestation of the emptiness of being is boredom. "Sunday neurosis" ---- people after a busy week, suddenly feel that life has no content, its inner emptiness highlighted. At the same time emptiness appears wearing a variety of masks and disguises. Sometimes the frustrated person's quest for meaning is compensated for through the pursuit of power (including the pursuit of power in its most primitive form, i.e., money).

What you experience, the world cannot take away. Not only our experiences, but our actions and all of our thoughts and all of our suffering do not go away. Though they are in the past, we can keep them alive in the world. "Was" is also a kind of "is", even more certain.

There is only one sense of curiosity in the critical moments of mountaineering.

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A book for everyone, highly recommended.

Reproduces an extreme kind of experience and experience in the history of mankind, so that we will not only feel the evil of the Nazis, but also will appreciate that human beings have the freedom of choice at all times, the freedom to maintain dignity, even if there is only one thing left to live that matters most, not to die, not to starve or die of exhaustion and disease.

Everyone has their own value, we need to answer the questions posed by life, full of responsibility to answer the questions of life, to practice and act. The significance of a moment is that it can be solidified through action.

We should heed the advice in the book, and treat each day as if it were a second go-around, where we ordinary chess players, for every move we make, think of the N scenarios that follow, and then in turn decide what to make of the move. Similarly, we should keep using 80-year-old himself, fifty-year-old himself, three years later himself, three months later himself to observe the moment, his own association with a God's eye out, so you can cope with, not vain, not anxious, not narrow-minded, not regret, not jealousy, not greedy, not sinking, not chicken, not complacent, not sound and colorful, not atrophied.

We will embrace the time to challenge our own heights from career or family responsibilities, to find the beauty of nature or the limits of skills from hobbies, to be happy and joyful from helping others in the past, and to test our own strength of will and inner freedom from inevitable diseases and sufferings.

I don't like Freud's "depth psychology", which feels more like negativity, explaining for the sake of explaining. I like "high psychology" or "pessimistic optimism" because we read and experience happiness in infancy.

There are so many possibilities in life that there is no time for nothingness.