1. Having meaning, your irreplaceable role as another human being or even a work of intellect is uniquely dependent on you, prevents you from throwing your life away, from committing suicide. 101
2. On page 105, Frankl raises the third psychological state, after release from prison. At the mercy of sadists, the prisoners wonder how can life be so cruel? Worse than people was fate. How could fate be so cruel? 113. They witnessed the world’s two people, the decent and the indecent.
3. Depersonalization occurred. Everything felt unreal, like a dream. See 110
4. Some victims felt entitled to wreak havoc upon the world as payback. 113
5. Logotherapy is “disagreeable to hear” because the moral standard damns most of us. We are forbidden to engage in self-pity. 120.
6. Logotherapy emphasizes goal setting for the future, finding meaning for the future, not introspection and reflection.
7. Psychotherapy tends to reinforce the neurotic’s self-centeredness; in contrast, logotherapy is meaning therapy and meaning is never found in narcissism. 121
8. Logotherapy emphasizes the will to meaning, not the will to pleasure or the will to power. 121.
9. In the absence of meaning, you are afflicted with neuroses. 123.
10. We do not choose the meaning of life for ourselves to fill the vacuum; rather life imposes meaning on us and we must embrace it according to our unique situation. 131
11. Live as if you’re getting a second chance. 132
12. The meaning test in which you imagine your whole life on your death bed. 140.
13. He quotes Psalms where it is written that God preserves all your tears to make the point that suffering can be used to find meaning. 143
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