... life, Frankl claims, can have deep meaning, even if it allows little or no creativity or pleasure, in part because if imparts meaning to suffering. Frankl quotes Dostoyevski: "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my suffering."" Suffering is an element in all human life and, without ... takes up his cross [may] add a deeper meaning to his life."" He and each of his fellow prisoners had to choose whether to remain brave and unselfish or to degenerate to the level of animals. Those who persevered and survived with dignity found moral values in a situation in which oth...

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... you only hoped for." This has helped me in ways I can not describe. Maybe in a way that I use to live for the future and now I live for today. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is the third view. In his Utopia the people were taught not to think for themselves and to be an individual. They were preconditioned from the time of birth. These ... for themselves. The way I can identify with this view is in Huxley's warning - that if we do not protect our rights as individuals, we can become like his "World State." I believe his World State to have similarities to Communism. Even today we as Ame...

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