For Frankl, the situation confirmed Friedrich Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.... He writes that he would not even have remembered the incident except that his lack of emotion surprised him and aroused his professional interest. ... (p. 104)  NEUROTIC: Tries "to escape the full awareness of his life task. And to make him aware of this task, to awaken him to a fuller consciousness  of it, can contribute much to his ability to overcome his neurosis."  ... While interesting, it contains a series of repetitive tales of how this method has ...

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You focus all that you are on the task you doing which allows you to live in the present moment. ... He talks of how man has a passion for life yet he must accept death and also how man is a being that can feel love and the pain that it can bring. ... In his work The Prophet this idea is very easily seen and understood for example in the section "On Joy and Sorrow" he writes, "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. ... Then farther into this section he writes, "Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and other say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." ... In this section he explains how each person...

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