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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 646549" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>I just remembered this quote I heard in a seminar........the facilitator had been a political prisoner in South America for quite a number of years and had, like Victor Frankl, developed a way of accepting his fate by choosing his response to this very challenging situation. The quote is: "Suffering is a linguistic phenomenon, it happens in our languaging." That was his opening line on Friday night for a 3 day seminar. I never forgot it, I thought it was brilliant. He, like Frankl, had come out of a dramatically difficult situation and used it as a means to conquer the way he responded. </p><p></p><p>I've been thinking about this conversation we're having here for a few days............the book, Mans search for meaning, by Frankl, really had a lasting impression on me. In the beginning of the book, he speaks about how he would observe people entering the Concentration camps and after awhile he was able to discern who would quickly perish from the sheer horror of it, who would eat their shoes to stay alive, who would make it their life's work to seek revenge using it as a means of survival, who would be present for others in their pain...........I was young, in my very early 20's when I read this and it was probably one of the first times I had really begun to understand the depth of man's inhumanity to man............I remember the huge impact it had on me as I thought to myself, if I were in that position, which fate would await me? Which choice would I make?.....Would I perish, would I hate, would I survive by any means? Those questions haunted me for a long time.</p><p></p><p>I still have no answers to that question since thankfully, I was not subjected to anything so horrific...........yet the idea that one has the power to choose one's response has changed my life immeasurably. The last 3 years with my daughter and having to detach and accept what is has cemented all of it into my thinking in profound ways. I understand it now and I can implement it (as best I can thus far)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 646549, member: 13542"] I just remembered this quote I heard in a seminar........the facilitator had been a political prisoner in South America for quite a number of years and had, like Victor Frankl, developed a way of accepting his fate by choosing his response to this very challenging situation. The quote is: "Suffering is a linguistic phenomenon, it happens in our languaging." That was his opening line on Friday night for a 3 day seminar. I never forgot it, I thought it was brilliant. He, like Frankl, had come out of a dramatically difficult situation and used it as a means to conquer the way he responded. I've been thinking about this conversation we're having here for a few days............the book, Mans search for meaning, by Frankl, really had a lasting impression on me. In the beginning of the book, he speaks about how he would observe people entering the Concentration camps and after awhile he was able to discern who would quickly perish from the sheer horror of it, who would eat their shoes to stay alive, who would make it their life's work to seek revenge using it as a means of survival, who would be present for others in their pain...........I was young, in my very early 20's when I read this and it was probably one of the first times I had really begun to understand the depth of man's inhumanity to man............I remember the huge impact it had on me as I thought to myself, if I were in that position, which fate would await me? Which choice would I make?.....Would I perish, would I hate, would I survive by any means? Those questions haunted me for a long time. I still have no answers to that question since thankfully, I was not subjected to anything so horrific...........yet the idea that one has the power to choose one's response has changed my life immeasurably. The last 3 years with my daughter and having to detach and accept what is has cemented all of it into my thinking in profound ways. I understand it now and I can implement it (as best I can thus far) [/QUOTE]
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